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Wandsworth 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
74 of the total deaths occurred among females from Cancer
of the Breast or Uterus, compared with 63 in 1910, 80 in 1909,
75 in 1908, 81 in 1907, and 59 in 1906.
The next Table shows the death-rate per 100,000 for each of
the sub-districts and for the whole Borough for the year and for
the 10 preceding years.

Table: TABLE LXXVII.

TABLE LXXVII.

Sub-District.1901.I902.1903.1904.1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.Average for 10 years.1911.
Clapham10411496110869612510499134107108
Putney821019510611299901106912199120
Streatham101881149187921051011068997126
Tooting5854601084886577573626964
Wandsworth66901028488102909194959188
Whole Borough87931019586969997949999104

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Compared with 1910 there has Becn an increase in this rate
in Streatham and Tooting, and a decrease in Clapham, Putney
and Wandsworth.
There has Becn a slight increase in the rate from this disease
compared with the previous year and with the decennial average,
and in the various sub-districts there has Becn a considerable
increase in Putney and Streatham, a slight increase in Clapham,
but a decrease in Tooting and Wandsworth. It is specially noticeable
that the death-rate in Tooting is the lowest of all the subdistricts,
not only for 1911, but during the whole of the 10 years.
In the decennium 1851-1860 this rate for England and Wales
was only 32.5, but it increased in 1891-1900 to 75.8, and for London
only in the decennium 1851-1860 it was 42, and for 1891-1900 85,
or slightly more than double.