Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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Of the past year was not dependent so much upon the fatality
from Zymotic disease as to an increase in the deaths from
diseases less liable to fluctuation.
Year. 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883
Gout & Rheumatism .. .. .. .. 3 1 4 4 4 5
C Cancer and Tumours .. .. .. .. .. 7 3 6 1 6 8
Tubercular 19 24 2G 26 26 32 23 18 17 12 28
Nervous 26 39 23 26 29 28 34 33 21 33 44
Circulatory 13 8 13 6 8 12 13 13 14 12 14
Respiratory 21 30 36 23 29 37 42 27 24 29 30
Digestive 12 11 7 5 12 10 9 13 17 15 15
Urinary 4 3 8 7 11 2 4 6 2 6 6
Generative 2 .. 1 1 2 .. 1 .. 2 2 4
Loeomotory 1 .. 1 1 2 .. .. ..
Integumentary .. 1 .. 2 1 1 1
Premature Birth,
Atrophy, &c 7 7 16 10 8 7 8 16 18 7 17
Old Age 3 6 11 8 8 7 5 9 6 5 10
V—Violence 56479576 13 7 15
(Other diseases) 3 12 1 1 3 .. .. .. ..
Totals 116 146 147 121 148 150 152 152 140 139 196
In all the sub.classes of these groups an increase has
taken place in the number of fatal cases, though with two
exceptions none of them can be considered much above the
average. These exceptions are in diseases of the nervous
system and in deaths due to violence. The former was swelled