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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 1898

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

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Table: Table A of Deaths during the Year 1898 in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Battersea, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

Table A of Deaths during the Year 1898 in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Battersea, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the pur pose 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.
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At all ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 55 and under 1515 and under 2525 and under 6565 and up wardsfevers.
Small Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia, &cHeart DiseaseInfluenza.Injuries.All Other Diseases.Total.
Typhus.Enteric Fever.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
East Battersea10624141843540281108Under 5...3114..................2593386...191053424245598
5 upwards...141...1......2...21...2684725i1922196464
West Battersea (excludingPublic Insts.)12053901743741350213Under 5...1103......1.........4463570...2973...922261564
5 upwards...112......5......2...41...448877574023323641
Wandsworth and Clapham Infirmary.4703621...15253145Under 5..............................11232...115.........2357
5 upwards...............1......2...7......111004152415189413
Bolingbroke Hospital25...331153Under 5.........................................................3...3
5 upwards.............................................1...1...13722
Under 5..................................................................
5 upwards..................................................................
Totals27628403827597899469Under 5...4217......1.........711771158...49193313495291222
5 upwards...2161...7......6...132...71127319016163737i51540
The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above Records of Mortality.
Deaths occurring outside the District of Persons belonging thereto.38839975i2514630Under 5...1648........................5...6...9131...533136
5 upwards...627......8............2......1732727...12123252
Deaths occurring within the District of Persons not belonging thereto.258231831112380Under 5.................................1021...111......11541
5 upwards...............1............4.........1411329...23105217