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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

Battersea 1896

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1896

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Table: TABLE IX. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

TABLE IX. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.|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 Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Class.
[Non-Parishioners,] 1896.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox..........................................
Measles743...77.....................7
Scarlet Fever..........................................
Typhus Fever..........................................
Enteric Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever..........................................
Diphtheria..........................................
Whooping Cough2...211........................2
Erysipelas33...............111.........3
Diarrhoea, Dysentery & Cholera131039211......2............13
Influenza11..................1............1
Other Zymotic Diseases..........................................
Total of Zymotic Diseases26188101020...141.........26
II. Constitutional.Gout..........................................
Rheumatism33...............1...2.........3
Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional1165...............47.........11
Diseases633516.....................6
Tubercular.Phthisis28244............1243............
Other Tubercular Diseases14......11...21............4
III. Local. _ __Nervous17611.........1...133.........17
Circulatory331617............31614.........33
Respiratory251312...11...1914.........25
Digestive7521...1...114.........7
Urinary1798...............107.........17
Generative1...1............1...............1
Locomotory11..................1............1
Integumentary..........................................
IV..Develop- mental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Congenital Defects7167...7.....................7
Old Age491633...............445.........49
V. Violence64......22......4............6
VI. All other Diseases1...1...11.....................1
Totals24212911323163911191100.........242