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Battersea 1899

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1899

Published
1900
Author
Kempster, W.H.
Pages
128
Tables
45

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45 tables in this report

  • Page 9
    TABLE I.
    Birth Rate.
  • Page 10
    TABLE II.
    Uncorrected Death Rate, per 1,000 of population.Corrected Death Rate, per 1,000 of population
  • Page 10
    TABLE III.
    Locality.Deaths of Parishioners.Deaths of Non-Parishioners.Totals.
  • Page 12
    TABLE IV.—Analysis of the Vital and Mortal Statistics of the Sanitary Districts of the Metropolis, after Distribution of Deaths occurring in Public Institutions, during the Year 1899.
    SANITARY AREAS.Estimated Population middle of 1899.BirthsDeaths.Annual Rate per 1,000 Living.Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases.Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus.Enteric Fever.Simple and Undefined Fever.Diarrhoea.Phthisis.Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1,ooo Births.
    Births.Deaths.Principal Zymotic Diseases.
  • Page 13
    TABLE V. RECORDED AND CORRECTED DEATH-RATES PER 1,000 LIVING IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND ALSO IN 33 GREAT TOWNS IN 1899.
    Recorded Death-rate.Corrected Death-rate. tRecorded Death-rateCorrected Death-rate.‡
  • Page 16
    TABLE VI. Table a of Deaths during the Year 1899 in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Battersea, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the 'purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shewn as separate localities.Mortality from all causes, at subjoined Ages.Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under 5 Years.
    123456789101112131415161718192021Total.
    At all ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 55 and under 1515 and under 2525 and under 6565 and upwardsSmall Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia, &c.Heart Disease.Influenza.Injuries.All Other Diseases.
    Typhus.Enteric Fever.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
  • Page 17
    TABLE VII. DEATHS OF BATTERSEA PARISHIONERS OCCURRING OUTSIDE THE DISTRICTS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND ELSEWHERE WITHIN THE METROPOLIS.
    Deaths of Parishioners in outlying Public Institutions. DISEASE.Totals.Sex.Age.Institutions, &c.
    Male=.Females.Under 1 year.1 to 5 years.All under 5.5 to 15 years.15 to 25 years.25 to 65 years.| 65 and upwards.Union Workhouses, &c.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.County and other Lunatic Asylums.Elsewhere.
  • Page 19
    TABLE VIII. BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN EAST BATTERSEA DURING THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS OF 1899.
    Week ending:—BIRTHS.DEATHS.
    Males.Females.TotalMales.Females.Total.
  • Page 20
    Births and Deaths in East Battersea, 1899—continued.
    Week ending:—BIRTHS.DEATHS.
    Males.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total.
  • Page 21
    TABLE IX BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN WEST BATTERSEA DURING THE FIFTY-TWO WEEKS OF 1899.
    Week ending:—BIRTHS.DEATHS.
    Males.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total.
  • Page 22
    Births and Deaths in West Battersea, 1899—continued.
    Week endingBIRTHSDEATHS.
    Males.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total.
  • Page 23
    TABLE X. Summary of Births and Deaths for the Several Quarters with Totals for the Year.
    Battersea. 1899.BirthsDeathsDeathsSmall PoxMeaslesScarlet FeverDiphtheriaWhooping CoughFeverDiarrhoeaCholeraViolenceInquestsPublic Institutions (including Non-Parishioners.)
    Under 1 YearAbove 60 Years
  • Page 23
    The Births and Deaths registered during the four quarters of the year in the whole Parish are here set out:—
    Births.Deaths.
  • Page 25
    TABLE XI. Comparative Statistics of Births, Mortality, &c.
    Year.Mean Population for Year.Births.Birth Rate.Deaths.Death Rate.Zymotic Deaths.Natural Increase.
  • Page 26
    TABLE XII. Statistics of Mortality.
    East Battersea.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c.Sex.Age.Social Position
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    TABLE XIII. Statistics of Mortality.
    West Battersea.Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c.Sex.Age.Social Position
    Population (Census) 1896, 93,385.Males.Females.Under 1 year.1 to 5 years.All under 5 years.5 to 15 years.15 to 25 years.25 to 65 years.65 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    Estimated mean population (excluding institutions) for 1899, 98,474.
  • Page 28
    TABLE XIV. Statistics of Mortality.
    Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary.Total Deaths from each Class of Diseases, &c.Sex.Age.Social Position
    Males.Females.Under 1 year.1 to 5 years.All under 5 years.5 to 15 years.15 to 25 years.25 to 65 years.65 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    [Parishioners,] 1899.
  • Page 29
    TABLE XV. 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.1 to 5 years.All under 5 years.5 to 15 years.15 to 25 years.25 to 65 years.65 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class. Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    [Non-Parishioners,] 1899.
  • Page 30
    TABLE XVI. Statistics of Mortality.
    Bolingbroke Hospital.Parishioners.Non-Parishioners.
    Age.Sex.Age.Sex.
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    TABLE XVII. Infantile Mortality.
    Year.Number of Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age.Rate per 1,000 Births Registered.
  • Page 32
    TABLE XVIII.
    Year.No. of Deaths of Infants under 5 years of age.
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    TABLE XIX. Comparative Table of all non-zymolic causes of Deaths during the past 10 years.
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  • Page 34
    TABLE XX. Comparative Table of Zymotic Mortality during the past 10 years.
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  • Page 39
    ing two hundred and fifty cases inquests were held with the following verdicts:—
  • Page 40
    They are here classified according to the days of the week :—
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    TABLE XXI. Sickness and Mortality amongst the Parish Poor during the year 1899.
    ZYMOTIC OR EPIDEMIC DISEASES.Grand Totals of Cases and Deaths from all Diseases.
    Battersea.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric & other Fevers.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever or Metria.Diarrhoea, Dysentery, or Cholera.Influenza.Other Zymotic Diseases.Total.
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    TABLE XXII. Weekly Summaries of Notifications Received During the Year 1899 (excluding duplicates).
    Month.Week of Year.Cases of Infectious Disease Notified.
    Small-Pox.Cholera.Diphtheria.Erysipelas.Scarlet Fever.Typhus.Enteric.Continued and Relapsing.Puerperal.Totals.
  • Page 46
    TABLE XXIII. Prevalence of Notifiable Infectious Disease and Mortality therefrom.
    No. of Cases notified.No. of cases removed to Hospital.Deaths at home. ( Parishioners.)Deaths at Hospital.Total Deaths during Year under Report.Total Deaths during Preceding Year (1898.)
  • Page 48
    Table B of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Disease coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the Year 1899 in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Battersea, Classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
    Names of localities adopted for the purpose of these statistics, Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases removed from their homes in the several localities for treatment in Isolation Hospital.
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    Small Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Small Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.tnteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    Last Census. 1896.Estimated to middle of 1899.
  • Page 50
    TABLE XXV. Particulars of the Prevalence of Notifiable Infections Diseases in the several Sanitary Districts.
  • Page 51
    The following shews the number of cases of smallpox notified during each year of the past decennium, those which were subsequently found not to be true cases being excluded :—
  • Page 52
    TABLE XXVI.
  • Page 55
    TABLE XXVII. Effect of closure of the Infants' Department of Plough Road Board School.
    Period.No. of Cases of DiphtheriaRate per week.
  • Page 57
    The distribution of the cases amongst the eight sanitary districts during the past two years is here given. TABLE XXVIII.
  • Page 60
    TABLE XXIX.
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    TABLE XXX.
  • Page 63
    TABLE XXXI. Death-rates from Phthisis in Metropolitan Sanitary Districts during 1899.
    Before Distribution.After Distribution.
  • Page 65
    TABLE XXXII. Mortality from Phthisis per Annum in several periods, 1851 to 1895, per million living, at all ages, and at groups of ages.
    Period.All ages.Under 5 years.5 to 10 years.10 to 15 years.15 to 20 years.20 to 25 years.25 to 35 years.35 to 45 years.45 to 55 years.55 to 65 years.65 to 75 years.75 years & upwards.
  • Page 74
    During the year one hundred cases were notified at Brighton principally from local public institutions.
  • Page 83
    Table XXXIII.
    Number of bodies received in the Mortuary.Number of bodies upon which postmortem examinations were held.Number of bodies upon which Coroner's inquests were held.
  • Page 87
    The distribution, over the various sanitary districts of the premises where flooding was reported to have occurred, is as follows'—
  • Page 88
    The following table shews the number of houses in which sickness was ascertained to have occurred at the flooded premises visited TABLE XXXIV.
    Nature of Sickness.Number of Houses in which Sickness Occurred./
  • Page 99
    TABLE XXXV. Battersea Vaccination Returns, January to December, 1899.
    Registration Sub- District.Number of Births returned in the Birth List Sheets—1899.Nos. of those births duly entered by the 31st January, 1900, in Cols. 10, 11, and 13, of the Vaccination Register. (Birth List Sheets), viz.:—No. of Births which on, the 31st March, 1900,remained unentered in the Vaccination Register on account.Number of those Births remaining on 31st January, 1900, neither duly entered in Vaccination Register (Col. 3, 4, 5, and 6 of this Return) nor accounted in the Report Book
    Col. 10, successfully vaccinated.Col. 11, Insusceptible of vaccination.Had Smallpox.Col. 13, Dead un-vaccinated.Conscientious Objection Certificates received.Postponement by Medical Certificate.Removed to Districts the vaccination officers of which have been apprised.Removed to places unknown.
  • Page 110
    TABLE XXXVI. SUMMARY OF SANITARY OPERATIONS OF THE YEAR.
  • Page 111
    Food (continued).