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Wandsworth 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE IX.Deaths in Public Institutions, &c., in the Borough of Persons belonging to the Borough, 1910.

TABLE IX.

Deaths in Public Institutions, &c., in the Borough of Persons belonging to the Borough, 1910.

CAUSES OF DEATHDeaths in or belonging to whole District at subjoined ages.Institutions.
All Ages.Males.Females.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.Fever Hospitals.Tooting Home.Hostel of God.Workhouse.Tooting Bec Asylum.H.M. Prison.Royal Hospital for Incurables.Other Places—not Institutions.
Small-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever954...54.........9.....................
Typhus Fever...................................................
Epidemic Influenza...................................................
Whooping Cough...•••..............................................
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup1557...831......12.....................
Croup...................................................
Enteric Fever...................................................
Asiatic Cholera................................................
Diarrhcea, Dysentery................................................
Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis1...11.......................................
Enteritis...................................................
Other Continued Fevers...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Puerperal Fever...................................................
Other Septic Diseases...................................................
Intermittent Fever and Malarial Cachexia...................................................
Tuberculosis of Meninges22...11............2..................1
Tuberculosis of Lungs18117.........312......134...............
Other forms of Tuberculosis...................................................
Alcoholism................................................4
Cancer927.........14......14............1
Premature Birth4134........................3.........3
Developmental Diseases5325.................._ ......2.........2
Old Age33726............132...18157.........
Meningitis................................................1
Inflammation and Softening of Brain1...1...............1.....................1
Organic Diseases of Heart422.........1...3...2...1.........2
Acute Bronchitis2...22....................................2
Chronic Bronchitis835...............8...6.........1......
Lobar (Croupous) Pneumonia11............1..............................
Lobular (Broncho-) Pneumonia321............12...3..................
Diseases of Stomach...................................................
Obstruction of Intestines11..................1...1..................
Cirrhosis of Liver................................................1
Nephritis and Bright's Disease1...1............1...........................
Tumours and other Affections of Female Genital Organs1...1............1............1............
Accidents and Diseases of Parturition................................................
Deaths by Accident or Negligence10733...5...11............1......9 1
Deaths by Suicide1...1............1........................1
Deaths from ill-defined causes11...............1.....................218
All other causes321022......21141515...33..._......
All causes1596396161414837702449915111248