Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1893
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WEST BATTERSEA.[exclusive of Public Institutions.]Population (Census) 1891, 83,314.Estimated mean population for middle of 1893, 90,226. | Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c. in the Sub-District. | Sex. | Age. | Social Position | ||||||||||||
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Males. | |Females. | Under 1 year. | From 1 to 5 years. | Total under 5 years. | From 5 to 15 years. | From 15 to 25 years. | From 25 to 65 years. | 65 years and upwards. | Nobility and Gentry. | Proie.-sional Class, Merchants. Bankers, &c. | Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks. &c. | Industrial and Labouring Classes. | ||||
I, Zymotic. | Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Measles | 13 | 5 | 13 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 13 | |||||
Scarlet Fever | 6 | 2 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Enteric Fever | 7 | 6 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | ||||||
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | ||||||
Diphtheria | 51 | 23 | 17 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | ||||||||
Whooping Cough | 65 | 25 | 59 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 64 | |||||
Erysipelas | 5 | 6 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 14 | ||||||||
Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Cholera | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||||||||||
Other Zymotic Diseases | 31 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
Total of Zymotic Diseases | 257 | 122 | 135 | 95 | 1 | |||||||||||
III. Constitutional. | Gout | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Rheumatic Fever | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
Cancer & other Tumours | 39 | 12 | 27 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 36 | ||||||
Other Constitutional Diseases | 11 | 6 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 10 | ||||||
Phthisis | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 79 | |||||||||
Tabes Mesa | 82 | 52 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | |||||||||
Hydrocephalus | 12 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
Scroiula | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
III. Local. | Nervous | 96 | .. | .. | ||||||||||||
Circulatory | 139 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 60 | |||||||||
Respiratory | 129 | 66 | 2 | |||||||||||||
Digestive | 79 | 36 | 9 | .. | .. | 2 | ||||||||||
Urinary | 27 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | |||||||
Generative | .. | 7 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
Locomotory | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
Integumentary | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||||
IV.Develop-mental. | Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects | 157 | .. | 157 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 153 | ||||
Old Age | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 42 | |||||||
V. | Violence | 33 | 6 | 4 | 2 | .. | .. | |||||||||
VI. | All other Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
1278 | 615 | 632 | 43 | 1216 |