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Wandsworth 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 177
77 of the total deaths occurred among females from Cancer
of the Breast or Uterus, compared with 73 in 1912, 74 in 1911, and
63 in 1910.
The greatest number of deaths occurred from Cancer of the
Intestines, which include Cancer of the Rectum.
The next Table shows the death-rate per 100,000 for each of
the sub-districts and for the whole Borough for the year and for
the 10 preceding years.
| Sub-District. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | 1906. | 1907. | 1908. | 1909. | 1910. | 1911. | 1912. | Average for 10 years. | 1913. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham | 96 | 110 | 86 | 96 | 125 | 104 | 99 | 134 | 108 | 141 | 109 | 102 |
| Putney | 95 | 106 | 112 | 99 | 90 | 110 | 69 | 121 | 120 | 94 | 101 | 119 |
| Streatham | 114 | 91 | 87 | 92 | 105 | 101 | 106 | 89 | 126 | 104 | 101 | 107 |
| Tooting | 60 | 108 | 48 | 86 | 57 | 75 | 73 | 62 | 64 | 87 | 72 | 63 |
| Wandsworth | 102 | 84 | 88 | 102 | 90 | 91 | 94 | 95 | 88 | 101 | 93 | 109 |
| Whole Borough | 101 | 95 | 86 | 96 | 99 | 97 | 94 | 99 | 104 | 107 | 97 | 107 |
Compared with 1912 there has been an increase in this rate
in Putney, Streatham, and Wandsworth, and a decrease in Clapham
and Tooting.
There has again been an increase in the rate from this disease
compared with the decennial average, but the rate is the same
compared with the previous year. In the various sub-districts
there has been a considerable increase compared with the decennial
average in Putney, Streatham and Wandsworth, but a decrease
in Clapham and Tooting. It is specially noticeable that the deathrate
in Tooting is the lowest and that in Clapham the highest of
the sub-districts during the whole of the 10 years. In the decennium
1851-1860 this rate for England and Wales was only 32.5,