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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 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.
The above 175 deaths have therefore to be added, giving a
further corrected total of 792, which may be taken as the true death
roll of the sub-district. The doath-rate calculated from this would
be 14-93, while in 1893 this coripcted death-rate was 18-43, a difference
of 3-50 per 1,000. This represents a saving of 185 lives, as to
make the death-rate of 1894 equal to that of 1893, that number
would require to be added.
Table III. gives the statistics of mortality in the sub-district for
the year. It is arranged according to the classification of the
Registrar-General, and shows the number, causes of death, age, sex
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 deatl s under each head as well as the per centage to the total deaths, were as follows:—
| 1. Zymotic | 126 deaths or 16.65 per cant. of total deaths. |
| 2. Constitutional | 148 „ 19.27 ,, ,, ,, |
| 3. Local | 375 „ 48.37 ,, ,, „ |
| 4. Developmental | 96 „ 12.50 „ „ „ |
| 5. Violence | 22 „ 2.09 „ „ „ |
| 6. Ill-defined | 0 ,, 0 „ „ ,, |