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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
Wandsworth 1893
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1893
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Adding the above deaths to those registered in the sub-district,
and subtracting those occurring in internal Institutions, the deathrate
would be 18.43 per 1,000, which most nearly represents the
true death-rate of the sub-district. There is, however, one fallacy
in this estimation, and that is, that in the estimate of the population,
the parishioners belonging to Wandsworth resident in these outlying
Institutions are not included. This number would bo
exceedingly small and would only fractionally affect the above rate.
Table III. gives the statistics of mortality in the sub-district for
the year. It is arranged as directed by the Registrar-General,
and shows the causes of deaths, ages, and social position of the
deceased.
Tables A and B which follow are inserted by direction of the
Local Government Board.
In Table III. the causes of death are classified under six main heads, and the number of deaths from these, as well as the per centage to total deaths, were as follows :—
| 1. Zymotic | 128 deaths or | 15.62 per C9nt. of total deaths. |
| 2. Constitutional. | 115 „ | 14.02 „ „ „ |
| 3. Local | 447 „ | 54.51 „ „ „ |
| 4. Developmental. | 101 „ | 12.31 „ „ „ |
| 5. Violence | 25 „ | 3.04 „ „ „ |
| 6. Illdefined | 4 „ | .47 „ „ „ |