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Wandsworth 1886

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

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Tubercular, including Phthisis..172143163196210198255266239237
Of Brain, Nerves, &c.148137136117147173168170178169
Of the Heart, &c.5553567294838595108104
Of the Respiratory Organs, excluding Phthisis124204260215266272318248327315
Of Digestive Organs37272747595968635269
Of Urinary Organs14162015262132193021
Of Organs of Generation8399141411121611
Of Joints, Bones, &c.122315121912518
Of Cancer22231422212533173133
Premature Birth, Low Vitality Malformation, &c30313670377830335561
Of Uncertain Seat and other diseases25291736272713392924
Age47585735313764455474
Violence23281323403020392935
Constitutional711164106710811
Totals71375182886499710281123106811611182

Of the 1,182 deaths, 593 were those of males and 584 of females.
The causes of death of persons dying without the district
will be found in the table following; they were 63 in number.

TABLE IV.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

WEST BATTERSEA.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfirmaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Disease.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever..................
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever211..2....11
Diphtheria321..3....3..
Whooping Cough..................
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases972..9....81
Cancer321..12..3..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases14104..131..14..
Circulatory Diseases1064..10....10..
Nervous Diseases752..43..7..
Other Diseases1064181..10..
Violence541..32..5..
Totals6343201539..612

Those occurring in Institutions within the district are included in the
General Mortality table.