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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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From the above Table it will be seen that scarlet fever was excessively
prevalent in June, July, September, October, and
November, and diphtheria (including membranous croup) in the
same months, the maximum number of the former disease being
reached in June, and of the latter in November. The variations in
the other notifiable diseases show nothing worthy of comment.
Non-Zymotic Diseases.
Table VIII shows the number of deaths from the above for the
year, compared with the preceding decennial average raised for
increase of population.

Table: TABLE VIII.COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.

TABLE VIII.

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.

Diseases.188318841885188618871S88188918901891189218931893
No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average.
Constitutional.Tubercular6485908711111472991078779..40
Other Constitutional2018283032303248315436..6
Local. _/Nervous ..11612814515111511290103104123110..45
Circulatory25223646324526463957579..
Respiratory69701011351101288717720114418424..
Digestive354722303034314251346216..
Urinary13151226172217172236283..
Generative..3642556996...4
Locomotory ....22..1..222......1.4
v Integumentary .....3....1..1..1.....7
Developmental.Premature \ 1 liirth f Malformation j 1 Low "Vitality , I Age......23403745384.1365466607215..
3342343236253324272629..11
Violence3221151713231527241825..1
Ill-defined or......324122242..
Not specified

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The above diseases cause the great majority of deaths as they
form 84.4 per cent. of the total mortality.