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Wandsworth 1891

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

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119
below the death-rate of London, and 1.0 below the decennial
average for this sub-district. In Table I. the birth and
death-rates for the last ten years are tabulated along with
the rate of natural increase of the population. This is
found by determining the excess of births over deaths
of the resident population, and takes no account of other
causes, which may be operating towards increasing or
diminishing the population from year to year.

Table: TABLE II.Deaths in Out-lying Institutions.

TABLE II.Deaths in Out-lying Institutions.

DISEASE.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Total.Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever11....1......1
Diphtheria..................
Enteric Fever..................
Whooping Cough..................
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases312..3....12
Tubercular Diseases936..8118..
Cancer11....1....1..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases76113343..
Circulatory Diseases541..2323..
Nervous Diseases84413435..
Other Diseases128414766..
Violence211..1111..
Total4829193261917283

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In Table II. the deaths of parishioners occuring in
outlying institutions are recorded. The number this
year is considerably in excess of that in former years.
There is however no increase in the number of the
d