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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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TABLE VII.

1887.1888.1889.1890.1891
Continued Fever........2
ZYMOTIC.Small Pox..........
Measles6853318778
Scarlatina1214525
Diphtheria2053301522
Whooping Cough4196399575
Typhus Fever1..1....
Enteric Fever101391410
Diarrhœa, Dysentry and Cholera7064417351
Erysipelas115556
Puerperal Fever26386
Influenza......2161
Other Zymotic Diseases5..528
Totals of Zymotic Class240304169322324
Gout and Rheumatism2618143316
Cancer and other Tumours78706889103
Other Constitutional Diseases1812153821
Tubercular268257219265246
Nervous292298282294287
Circulatory142160146150180
Respiratory330357302473510
Digestive119119107123149
Urinary5250505055
Generative47141812
Locomotory1..334
Integumentary14..11
Premature Births, Low Vitality, Malforamation, &c., &c.144156149174170
Old Age979610310495
Violence3948486654
Ill-defined and not specified4891010
Totals18551964169822132237

Zymotic
Diseases.
There were 324 deaths from diseases of this
class, or 14.4 per cent. of the total deaths,
giving a death-rate of 2.06 per thousand of the population.