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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 1896

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1896

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Table: TABLE XIII. Comparative Table of Zymotic Mortality during the past 11 years.

TABLE XIII. Comparative Table of Zymotic Mortality during the past 11 years.

188600 00m188818891890189118921893189418951896
Small Pox
Measles708287104i5937909015199185
Scarlet Fever14682512101015175105
Diphtheria92322212735289067605°
Enteric, &c., Fevers231713152119814131511
Whooping Cough10411211981146104100"57752137
Epidemic Diarrhoea.!52*757511212110499I2093151169
Other Zymotic Diseases262522215989*33il86210445
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases398502363366543398473564468491602
Zymotic Death Rate3'03 726253626303*5282 93'6
Death-rates from all Diseasesig'o18 215715619317 317 4.7-8!5 4178177

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Table XIV. shews the non-zymotic mortality for the year
1896 and the ten preceding years. Although the population has
considerably increased during the period the deaths do not vary
greatly from year to year, showing a relative decreasing mortality,
which may be reasonably credited to improved conditions of
existence, which is in reality all-round sanitation. But for the
prevalence of Influenza and diseases caused by and unfavourably
influenced by it, there can be no doubt that a great diminution in
this class of disease would be shewn, and such diminution may
be anticipated from the steady application of good public health
measures.

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

TABLE XIV. Comparative Table of all non-zymotic cases of Deaths during the past 11 years.

18861887188818891890189118921893189418951896
Tubercular, including Phthisis439367342334320285237355304353374
Of Brain, Nerves, &c.289280223212261195259213211334211
Of the Heart, &c.159128113108148141183159173213182
Of the Respiratory Or— gans,excluding Phthsis584538474391618572635653471623531
Of Digestive Organs.9686113100118122112127197114154
Of Urinary Organs3153243934497260575688
Of Organs ofGeneration14196141516151412722
Of Joints, Bones, &c.203093472365
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malforma— tion, &c175202175205206238256295273332298
Of Uncertain Seat Cancer, Syphilis, Dropsy, &c.10610579967089233130114108122
Age998857527174122103118128207
Violence636356 ...6077 ...608110270102117
Constitutional5......21223204028
Total20801949167116141942185022192237193624102339