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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 1899

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

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Table: TABLE XV. Statistics of Mortality.

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.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox..........................................
Measles44...134.....................
Scarlet Fever.......................................
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever11.................................1
Puerperal Fever1...1...............1............1
Diphtheria11......11......1............1
Membranous Croup..........................................
Whooping Cough.................................
Erysipelas431...............31.........4
Diarrhœa, Dysentery & Cholera321112......1............
Influenza22..................11.........
Other Zymotic Diseases..........................................
Total of Zymotic Diseases16133257......72.........16
II. Constitutional.Gout11..................1............1
Rheumatism1...1...............1............1
Cancer & other Tumours1055...............91.........10
Other Constitutional.........
Diseases7437...7.....................7
Tubercular.Phthisis and Other Tubercular J Diseases463313...22...3356.........46
III. Local.Nervous321418...11...21712.........32
Circulatory441826.........112418.........44
Respiratory35241 1145...21612.........35
Digestive844516.........2.........8
Urinary1192...............83.........11
Generative1...1............1...............1
Locomotory11......11.....................1
Integumentary..........................................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality, and Congenital Defects4314...4.....................4
Old Age422022...............339.........4-
V.Violence743...11...114.........7
VI.All other Diseases2...21...1......1............2
Totals26815311520153511012399.........268