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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

St Mary (Battersea) 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea]

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Other From these classes 871 were returned 123 being
causes of
death than from bronchitis, 74 pneumonia, laryngitis 7, asthma 3
and pleurisy 4—in all, 211 from disease of the
respiratory organs.
Of the constitutional diseases there were 224 deaths, 99
being from phthisis, atrophy 45, cancer 30, and other diseases
50.
From diseases of the digestive organs 60 were returned, 25
males and 35 females—21 being under 1, 33 under 20 years of
age, and 31, 20 and upwards.
The deaths of infants from premature birth were 98. These
are more numerous than last year and augment the number of
deaths, and add more than one per 1,000 to the death rate.
The following table contrasts all deaths from non-zymotic
causes during the past ten years.

Table: TABLE IV.

TABLE IV.

1880188118821883188418851886188718881889
Tubercular, including Phthisis196210198255266239237205160170
Of Brain, Nerves, &c.117147173168170178169159116112
Of the Heart, &c.7294838595108104916662
Of the Respiratory Organs, excluding Phthisis215266272318248327316302246211
Of Digestive Organs47595968635269667660
Of Urinary Organs15262632193021361627
Of Organs of Generation91414111216111438
Of Joints, Bones, &c.3151219125182993
Of Cancer22212533173133332430
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c.703778303355611007998
Of Uncertain Seat & other Diseases36272713392924301024
Age35313764455474672529
Violence ...23403020392935261927
Constitutional4106710811212010
Total864997102811231068116111831179869871

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Of the 871 deaths, 412 were those of males and 459 of
females.