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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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The following Table gives particulars of the causes of
these deaths, and the character of the Institution in
which they occurred, and the sub-district from which they
came:—

Table: TABLE IV.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE IV.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

CAUSES OF DEATH.Number in Entire District.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever21......1....3
Diphtheria8..12..5..35
Enteric Fever..................
Whooping Cough1........11....
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases1023....5622
Tubercular Diseases46994..2419252
Cancer2981611316121
Rheumatism3201....3....
Respiratory Diseases65177543241231
Circulatory Diseases40145311722161
Nervous Diseases591485..32271715
Other Diseases762212823249261
Violence18824..4610..
Total357974838816619013431
Corresponding Totals in preceding year3599143611115317713844

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The total of these deaths was therefore 357, compared
with 359 in 1890. If we add these to the 2,053 (as given
in Table II.) we obtain a total of 2,410 deaths, giving a
death-rate of 15.3 compared with 16.9 last year. This
of course includes the deaths of persons not properly belonging
to the Wandsworth District who have happened
to die within it, as well as all the deaths of the inhabitants
whenever they have occurred.