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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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110
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report
Non-Zymotic Diseases.
Table VIII shows the number of deaths from these 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.188418851886188718881889189018911892189318941894
No above corrected average.No below corrected average.
Constitutional.Tubercular8590871111147299107877997..27.7
Other Constitutional182830323032483154365156..
Local.Nervous12814515111511290103104123110111..47
Circulatory2236463245264639575752..2.4
Respiratory7010113511012887177201144184128..5.1
Digestive47223030343142513462815.7..
Urinary1512261722171722362824..44
Generative3642556996923..
Locomotory22..1222........1.4
Integumentary..3....1..1..1......8
Developmental.Premature Birth
Malformation4037453841365466607258..7.5
Low Vitality, Age4234323625332427262938..3
Violence2115171323152724182523..3.5
Ill-defined or Not specified....32412224....2.6

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The above diseases are the cause of the great majority of the
deaths, forming 83.59 per cent, of the total mortality as compared
with 84.4 per cent, last year.
From tubercular diseases, which include phthisis pulmonalis,
tabes meseuterica, tubercular meningitis, 97 deaths resulted, as
compared with 79 last year. This number was, however, 27.7 below
the corrected decennial average. Phthisis pulmonalis alone caused
73 deaths, but of these 16 occurred in internal institutions, while