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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 1882

[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 variations of fatality in these and the remaining classes as well as in the several diseases of the Zymotic Class, may be more conveniently compared in the following table, which shows the increase or decrease in the number of deaths from each class of disease during the past year in relation to its decennial average corrected for increase of population.

The variations of fatality in these and the remaining classes as well as in the several diseases of the Zymotic Class, may be more conveniently compared in the following table, which shows the increase or decrease in the number of deaths from each class of disease during the past year in relation to its decennial average corrected for increase of population.

CLASSES OF DISEASE, &c.Number of deaths in 1882.Average Annual number of deaths in the ten years 1871-80.Same averages corrected for Increase of population.Number of deaths 1882 above corrected average.Number of deaths 1882 below corrected average.
1. Zymotic :—viz.
Seven principal Epidemic Diseases.Small Pox11823...22
Measles115709223...
Scarlatina119871145...
Diptheria51162130...
Whooping Cough16310413726...
Fever495167...18
Diarrhoea11714118568
Other Zymotic Diseases726484...12
2. Tubercular521501660...139
3. Brain and Nerves539427562...23
4. Heart, &c25117222625...
5. Kespiratorv Organs850596726124...
6. Digestive Organs19512516530...
7. Urinary Organs89466722...
8. G-enerative Organs3219257...
9. Joints, Bones, &c25111411...
10. Skin, &c9451...
11. Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c234182239...5
12. Dropsy, Cancer, and Uncertain Seat14410013113...
13. Age153130171...18
14. Violence104781022
15. Not Specified185673...55

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Deaths at different Ages.— Tnfant and Senile
Mortality.—The deaths of infants under one year of age
amounted to 28 per cent, of the total mortality.
Calculated by the proportion which the deaths under
that age bear to the total births registered, the deathrate
of infants under one year was 13"7 per cent., the
average of the preceding ten years having been 14*6
per cent. But as fewer children die from epidemic
diseases during their first year of life than subsequently,
the death-rate of children should embrace the period of
greatest proclivity to such diseases, and consequently
all ages under ten years. The deaths of children under
10 years increased during the past year; they formed