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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eases of the Respiratory Organs, but more satisfactorily,
the great diminution in the number of deaths from
diseases of the Zymotic class.
The variation in the numbers of the different causes
of death are compared with their corresponding numbers
in the preceding ten years, and with their respective
averages in the two following tables, the former comprising
the mortality of the non-zymotic and the latter
that of the zymotic class of diseases.
Non-zymotic Mortality.—Table shewing the number of
deaths in 11 years, 1877—87, with the increase or aecrease
of deaths in 1887, compared with the annual
average deaths in 1877—86 raised in proportion to
increase of population.
Causes of Death.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
No. above
corrected
aveiage.
No. below 1887
corrected
average.
Developmental. Local. Constitutional.
Tubercular 54 60 62 60 51 69 64 85 90 87 111 32
Other Constitu-
tional 17 14 12 17 19 19 20 18 28 30 32 10
Nervous 111 111 96 106 121 106 116 128 145 151 115 24
Circulatory 21 19 20 23 28 28 25 22 36 46 32 2
Respiratory 42 86 125 89 90 87 69 70 101 135 110 6
Digestive 18 29 21 21 28 28 35 47 22 30 30 2
Urinary 9 4 10 11 4 20 13 15 12 26 17 3
Generative 3 4 10 1 4 3 6 4 2 1.5
Locomotory 1 3 2 1 2 2 1
Integumentary 1 3 5
Premature
Birth
Malformation 19 18 18 27 37 27 23 40 37 45 38 4
Low Vitality
Age 13 14 26 23 27 27 33 42 34 32 36 5
Violence 11 13 11 11 20 18 32 21 15 17 13 6
Ill-defined or 3 1 1 4 1 3 2
Notspecified 3 1 1 4 1 3 2 5