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Wandsworth 1914

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
118 of the deaths, 56 of males and 62 of females, occurred in
External Institutions, 46 in Workhouses and Workhouse Infirmaries,
and 72 in General and Special Hospitals.
93 of the total deaths occurred among females from Cancer
of the Breast or Uterus, compared with 77 in 1913, 73 in 1912, and
74 in 1911.
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.

Table: TABLE LXXXIV.

TABLE LXXXIV.

Sub-District.1904.1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.1913.Average for 10 years.1914.
Clapham110869612510499134108141102110114
Putney10611299901106912112094119104137
Streatham91879210510110689126104107100137
Tooting1084886577573626487637298
Wandsworth8488???909194958810110994106
Whole Borough9586969997949910410710798120

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Compared with 1913 there has been an increase in this rate
in all the sub-districts with the exception of Wandsworth.
There has again been an increase in the rate from this disease
in all the sub-districts compared with the decennial average. It is
specially noticeable that the death-rate in Tooting is the lowest and
that in Putney and Streatham the highest of the sub-districts compared
with this average. In the decennium 1851-1860 this rate for
England and Wales was only 32.5, but it increased in 1891-1900 to
75.8, and for London only in the decennium 1851-1860 it was 42,
and for 1891-1900 85, or slightly more than double.