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Wandsworth 1888

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

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The deaths from Age unassociated with disease were
25, or 9 less than the average number.
Violence. The deaths from Violence numbered 23, and
were 3 more than the average.
III-defined or Under this head 4 deaths were recorded
not specified.
being 3 above the average number.
In the following table the total deaths from Non-Zymotic
diseases in the eleven years 1878-88 are enumerated
and the increase and decrease of deaths in 1888 are
compared with the annual average number of deaths in
1878-87, raised in proportion to increase of population:—

Table: TABLE V.COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.

TABLE V.

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.

Causes of Death.187818791880188118821883188418851886188718881888
.No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average.
Developmental. Local. Constitutional.Tubercular60626051696485908711111427..
Other Constitutional14121719192018283032305..
Nervous11196106121106116128145151115112..27
Circulatory192023282825223646324512..
Respiratory86125899087697010113511012816..
Digestive921212828354722303034....
Urinary410114201315122617227..
Generative4101..4..364251.5..
Locomotory1..321..22* *1....1
integumentary........1••..3....1..5
Premature Birth..........................
Malformation18182737272340374538415..
Low Vitality
Age1426232727334234323625..9
Violence13111120183221151713233..
III-defined or
Not specified )11__..41......3243..