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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 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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upwards of 10 per cent. of all causes of death. This loss
of infant life is truly deplorable, for I believe many such
deaths might be prevented were it not for the ignorance,
and culpable, if not criminal, neglect of parents; the
terms low vitality, debility from birth, Tabes Mesenterica,
are too often used to describe deaths, only too
surely, I fear, the result of a course of insufficient or
improper feeding.
In class 13 there are 25 deaths, a large number to
be attributed to old age alone; they form upwards of 7
per cent. of all deaths.
The other classes differing but little from their
averages, require no special remark.

Table: The following Table contrast all deaths from non-Zymotic diseases during the past eight years:—

The following Table contrast all deaths from non-Zymotic diseases during the past eight years:—

Years18731874187518761877187818791880
Tubercular3535343123303238
Of Brain, Nerves, &c..........2842413933574154
Of the Heart, &c2317201833313417
Of Respiratory Organs4919345236446452
Of Digestive Organs1217212225291625
Of Urinary Organs636677105
Of Organs of Generation32...611215
Of Joints, Bones, &c...11272...3
Of Skin1...1...2...1...
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c.1612141415171937
Of Uncertain Seat64824369
Age178202314171225
Violence5669531311
Not Specified4121............
Totals.205167208225215242249281