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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Battersea 1894

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1894

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Table: TABLE XIII. Comparative Table of all non-zymotic causes of Deaths during the past 11 years.

TABLE XIII. Comparative Table of all non-zymotic causes of Deaths during the past 11 years.

18841885188618871888188918901891189218931884
Tubercular, including Phthisis479420439367342334320285237355304
Of Brain, Nerves, &c.298282289280223212261195259213211
Of the Heart, &c.148159159128113108148141183159173
Of the Respiratory Organs,excluding Phthisis489630584528474391618572635653471
Of Digestive Organs85889686113100118122112127197
Of Urinary Organs3446315324393449726057
Of Organs of Generation162314196141516151412
Of Joints, Bones, &c.16820309347236
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malform ation, &c.149137175202175205206238256295273
Of Uncertain Seat Cancer, Syphilis, Dropsy, &c.9110510610579967089233130114
Age6476998857527174122103118
Violence57616363566077608110270
Constitutional945————2122320
Total19352039208019491671161419421850221922371936

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Table XII. gives the zymotic mortality for the past eleven
years with particulars as to the zymotic and other death rates.
It will be seen that the non-notifiable infectious diseases are the
more fatal. Thus from measles, one hundred and fifty one
deaths arose, from whooping cough seventy seven, epidemic
diarrhoea ninety three, and other zymotic diseases, chiefly
influenza sixty two. Thus three hundred and eighty three
deaths occurred from diseases not notified to the Medical Officer
of Health, and therefore not under any supervision compared
with eighty five from the whole of the notifiable zymotics,
viz.:—From scarlet fever five, from diphtheria sixty seven, and
from enteric and other fevers thirteen. This but confirms the
experience of former years that when a disease is notified and
to a certain extent under control it tends to dwindle away,
but when not so controlled increases both in number and