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Battersea 1895

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1895

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TABLE VIII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c.Sex.Age.Social Position
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 GentryProfessional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
[Parishioners.] 1895.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox............................
Measles1..1..11..............1
Scarlet Fever............................
Typhus Fever.............................
Enteric Fever............................
Puerperal Fever1..1........1...........1
Diphtheria.............................
Whooping Cough............................
Erysipelas............................
Diarrhœa, Dysentry, and Cholera532415..............5
Influenza312........21........3
Other Zymotic Diseases.............................
Total of Zymotic Diseases1046426..31.........10
II. Constitutional.Gout11............1........1
Rheumatism...........................
Cancer & other Tumours1385..........103.......13
Other Constitutional Diseases6355..5....1........6
Tubercular.Phthisis402416........8302........40
Other Tubercular Diseases211........11.........2
III. Local.Nervous231211..1121154.......23
Circulatory371522........12016......37
Respiratory583023516..42721........68
Digestive716........151......7
Urinary743..11....6........7
Generative............................
Locomotory............................
Integumentary................................
IV.Develop-mental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Delects3J23..3.................3
Old Age21147.............21........21
V. Violence422............22........4
VI. All other Diseases............................
Totals2321201121752221911970.......232