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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The greatest number of deaths occurred from Cancer of the
Bowel, but 56 out of the total number of deaths of females
occurred from Cancer of the Breast or Uterus.
in my report for 1902 a chart was inserted showing the deathrate
per 100,000 from 1885, and this year shows a still further
increase in the rate, such rate having increased from 90 to 98.
The next Table shows the rate per 100,000 for each of the
separate sub-districts and for the whole Borough. Clapham and
Putney have a lower rate than last year, but Streatham, Tooting,
and Wandsworth a higher.
in Streatham the rate has increased from 84 to 109 and in
Wandsworth from 89 to 103 per 100,000.
The low rate in Tooting is very remarkable and compares
favourably with Putney which has almost the same population.
One reason of the difference is doubtless the number of
persons living at the Cancer age is much larger in Putney than in
Tooting.
Death-rate per 100,000, from 1885-1903 1n the separate subdistricts:-

Tubercular Diseases.
343 deaths were registered as be1ong due to the above, compared
with 314 in 1902, 388 in 1901, and 374 in 1900.
230 of the deaths were due to Tubercular disease of the
Lungs, 52 to Tubercular disease of the Brain, and 61 to other
forms of Tubercular diseases,