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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 1890

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

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Table: Table VII.showing the total number of deaths and their causes registered in the entire district during the 4 years 1887—90 with the relative number of each class of disease.

Table VII.

showing the total number of deaths and their causes registered in the entire district during the 4 years 1887—90 with the relative number of each class of disease.

1887.1888.1889.1890.
ZYMOTIC.Small Pox........
Measles68533187
Scarlatina121452
Diphtheria20533015
Whooping Cough41963995
Typhus Fever1..1..
Enteric Fever ..1013914
Diarrhoea, Dysentry and Cholera ..70644173
Erysipelas11555
Puerperal Fever2638
Influenza......21
Other Zymotic Diseases5..52
Totals of Zymotic Class240304169322
Gout and Rheumatism26181433
Cancer and other Tumours78706889
Other Constitutional Diseases18121538
Tubercular268257219265
Nervous292298282294
Circulatory142160146150
Respiratory330357302473
Digestive119119107123
Urinaiy52505050
Generative471418
Locomotory1..33
Integumentary14..1
Premature Births, Low Vitality, Malformation. &c., &c.144156149174
Old Age9796103104
Violence39484866
Ill-defined and not specified48910
Totals1855196416982213

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Zymotic
Diseases.
322 or 14.5 per cent, of the total deaths were
due to diseases of this class. The Zymotic
death-rate was 2.l per 1,000, as compared with 1.1 in the
the previous year.
The following table presents at a glance a comparison
of the number of deaths and death-rates for the last
three years.