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 year1895
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TABLE VII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
WEST BATTERSEA. | Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c. in the Sub-District. | Sex. | Age. | Social Position | ||||||||||||
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Population (Census) 1891, 81,999. | 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. | Professional Class, Mer-|chants Bankers. &c.. | Middle and 1 Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, 8tc. | Industrial and Labouring Classes. | |||
Estimated mean population lor middle of 1895, 95,019. | ||||||||||||||||
I, Zymotic. | Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ... | .. | .. | ... | |
Measles | 29 | 11 | 18 | 12 | 15 | 27 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 28 | ||
Scarlet Fever | 6 | 3 | 3 | .. | 4 | 4 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | ||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Enteric Fever | 9 | 7 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 7 | |||
Puerperal Fever | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | ... | ||
Diphtheria | 30 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 27 | ||
Whooping Cough | 31 | 14 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 30 | 1 | .. | ... | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 29 | ||
Erysipelas | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | ||
Diarrhcea, Dysentery and Cholera | 64 | 34 | 30 | 52 | 7 | 59 | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | 10 | 54 | ||
Influenza | 38 | 20 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 5 | .. | 2 | 17 | 14 | .. | 2 | 5 | 31 | ||
Other Zymotic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | . | ... | ... | ... | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Total of Zymotic Diseases | 212 | 109 | 103 | 84 | 61 | 145 | 13 | 8 | 29 | 17 | ... | 3 | 24 | 185 | ||
11. Constitutional. | Gout | 3 | 3 | .. | ... | ... | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | |
Rheumatism | 10 | 5 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 9 | ||
Cancer & other Tumours | 47 | 17 | 30 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 33 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 36 | ||
Other Constitutional Diseases | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | ||
Phthisis | 80 | 42 | 38 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ... | 12 | 63 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 71 | ||
Other Tubercular Diseases | 58 | 26 | 32 | 30 | 11 | 41 | 5 | 4 | 8 | .. | .. | .. | 5 | 53 | ||
III. Local. | Nervous | 139 | 56 | 83 | 44 | 27 | 71 | 5 | 3 | 32 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 117 | |
Circulatory | 74 | 26 | 48 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 41 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |||
Respiratory | 314 | 138 | 176 | 87 | 57 | 144 | 7 | 4 | 101 | 58 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 280 | ||
Digestive | 65 | 34 | 31 | 23 | 5 | 28 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 1 | .. | 7 | 57 | |||
Urinary | 24 | 13 | 11 | .. | .. | ... | .. | 1 | 14 | 9 | .. | .. | 6 | 18 | ||
Generative | 3 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | ||
Locomotory | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Integumentary | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||
IV.Develop-mental. | Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects | 176 | 101 | 75 | 176 | .. | 176 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 9 | 164 | |
Old Age | 53 | 18 | 35 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 53 | .. | 2 | 2 | 49 | ||
V. Violence | 40 | 24 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 22 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 39 | ||
VI. All other Diseases | 2 | .. | 2 | ... | ... | ... | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | ||
Totals | 1305 | 613 | 692 | 465 | 172 | 637 | 35 | 46 | 367 | 220 | 15 | 25 | 111 | 1154 |