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Wandsworth 1894

Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District being for the year ended 25th of March 1895

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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.

TABLE VII.

Showing the total number of deaths and their causes, registered in the entire District during the eight years 1887-94, with the relative numbers of each class of disease:—

18871888188918901891189218931894
ZYMOTIC.Small Pox................
Scarlet Fever1214525102957
Diphtheria2053301522365491
Membranous Croup..........91713
Typhus1..1..........
Enteric Fever101391410101418
Continued Fever........2211
Puerperal Fever26386779
Cholera................
Erysipelas11555614109
Measles6853318778783279
Whooping Cough4196399575897453
Influenza......21611126343
Diarrhoea and Dysentery70644173518210454
Other Zymotic Diseases5..5281..6
Totals of Zymotic Class240304169322324450405433
Gout and Rheumatism2618143316212026
Cancer and other Tumours7870688910310190115
Other constitutional diseases1812153821252316
Tubercular268257219265246256228234
Nervous292298282294287302295246
Circulatory142160146150180185179172
Respiratory330357302473510453488340
Digestive119119107123149131157149
Urinary6250505055796961
Generative47141812211812
Locomotory1..334821
Integumentary14..1111..
Premature Births, Low Vi
tality, and Malformation144156149174170183215164
Old Age97961031049595114114
Violence3948486654616966
Ill-defined and not specified489101013136
Totals18551964169822132237238523762155

Diseases. In the Tables appear 433 deaths belonging
to this class, compared with 405 in the previous year, but
102 deaths from scarlet fever and diphtheria were of
persons not belonging to the district and took place in the
Fountain Fever Hospital. Without these the number