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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1915

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
114 of the deaths, 54 of males and 60 of females, occurred in
External Institutions, 63 in Workhouses and Workhouse Infirmaries,
and 51 in General and Special Hospitals.
91 of the total deaths occurred among females from Cancer
of the Breast or Uterus, compared with 93 in 1914, 77 in 1913, and
73 in 1912.
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 LX.

TABLE LX.

Sub-District.1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.19111912.19131914.Average for 10 years.1915.
Clapham869612510499134108141102114110110
Putney11299901106912112094119137107160
Streatham879210510110689126104107137105142
Tooting488657757362648763987193
Wandsworth88102909194958810110910696100
Whole Borough869699979499104107107120100120

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Compared with 1914 there has been an increase in this rate
in Putney and Streatham, and a decrease in Clapham, Tooting and
Wandsworth.
There has again been an increase in the rate from this disease
in all the sub-districts compared with the decennial average with
the exception of Clapham, which is the same. 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.