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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 1884

[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 non.zymotic diseases during the past nine years.

The following Table contrasts all deaths from non.zymotic diseases during the past nine years.

Years187618771878187918801881188218831881
Tubercular312330323838345658
Of Brain, Nerves, &c.393357415441495967
Of the heart, &c.183331341726324735
Of Respiratory Organs523644645248595071
Of Digestive Organs222529162533424445
Of Urinary Organs6771051061113
Of Organs of Generation6112158759
Of Joints, Bones, &c.272..3215..
Of Skin..2..1..l....1
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c.141517193729263755
Of Uncertain Seat243692729
Age231417122520293219
Violence953131198610
Not Specified1................
Totals.225215242249281267300354392

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Age at death.—Infant mortality.—The mortality in early life
was high, 207 of all deaths occurred before the age of 20. No
less than 55 of these were attributed to premature birth, low
vitality, and malformation. Diseases of the respiratory
organs, of the brain and nerves, and tubercular affections were
largely represented amongst the deaths in early life; and
there were only 41 deaths in the Zymotic class as against 53
in the previous year, 27.7 per cent of all deaths were of infants
in the first year of life; 34.7 per cent were of children under
five years of age, and 47 per cent were of young persons
under 20 years of age.
Senile mortality.—The mortality amongst aged persons was
high, though only 19 died solely from old age, but 120 died
at 60 and upwards; 57 of these were upwards of 70, 20
were over 80, and 1 was 97.
Of the persons who died at and upwards of 70—22 were
males and 35 females.
Sickness & mortality amongst the out-door poor of the parish.—
Table V. in the Appendix shows the number of persons who
were under treatment, the nature and extent of the sicknes