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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 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Table: The following table contrasts all deaths from Now- Zymotic diseases during the past seven years.

The following table contrasts all deaths from Now- Zymotic diseases during the past seven years.

Year1873187418751876187718781879
Tubercular35353431232332
Of Brain, Nerves, &c.28424139335741
Of the Heart, &c.23172018333134
Of Respiratory Organs49193452364464
Of Digestive Organs12172122252916
Of Urinary Organs63667710
Of Organs of Generation32..61121
Of Joints, Bones, &c...11272..
Of Skin1.1..2..1
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c.16121414151719
Of Uncertain Seat6482436
Age1782023141712
Violence56695313
Not Specified4121••••..
Totals205167208225215242249

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Age at Death.—The mortality of young children
was below the average. Thus 86 children died under ten
years of age, as against 113 in the previous year; 21 per
cent. of all deaths occurred during the first year of life;
upwards of 6 per cent. to children under 5 years of age,
and upwards of 42 per cent. to persons under 20 years
of age.
At the other extreme of life the mortality was large,
though only 12 deaths were registered as having resulted
from old age alone; but 57 deaths were recorded as
having occurred to persons over 70 years of age:—viz.,
from 70 to 80, 44; 80 to 90, 12, and one at 92; 25 of
these were males and 32 females.
Sickness and Mortality among the Union Poor.—
Table V. in the Appendix shews the number of persons
who were under treatment as well as the deaths which
took place among the out-door Union Poor of the district,
99 cases were treated; these figures include only 9 cases
of Zymotic disease, 5 of Whooping Cough, 3 of Diarrhœa
and 1 of Erysipelas; there was 1 fatal case of Whooping