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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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Class III.
Local—Respiratory formed 19.1 as against
15.8 last year. Nervous 13.7, Digestive 5.8.
Diseases of the organs of respiration formed about
one fifth of the total mortality and even more if the
deaths from Influenza are included under this head, a
large part of the latter had dangerous lung complications,
and there appears very little doubt that some of the
former were similarly complicated by the influenza
malaria. The long continued dense fogs of 1889 and 1890
had much to do with the large mortality under this head
daring the year 1890.
There was a considerable decline in the deaths from
nervous and digestive diseases.
TABLE VI.
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
Causes of Death.
1889.
1890.
Constitutional.
Tubercular
50
49
Other Constitution-
al Diseases
21
34
Local.
Nervous
77
68
Circulatory
37
28
Respiratory
65
95
Digestive
35
29
Urinary
13
13
Generative
7
3
Locomotory
..
..
Integumentary
..
..
Developmental.
Premature
Birth
Malformation
44
45
Low Vitality
Age
20
40
Violence
9
9
Ill-defined or
Not specified
..
3