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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 IX.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

TABLE IX.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary. [Non-Parishioners,] 1898.Total Deaths from each Class ot 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.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox..........................................
Measles10732810.....................10
Scarlet Fever..........................................
Typhus Fever..........................................
Enteric Fever1...1...............1............1
Puerperal Fever..........................................
Diphtheria..........................................
Membranous Croup..........................................
Whooping Cough22...112.....................2
Erysipelas413...............22.........4
Diarrhœa, Dysentery & Cholera1...11...1.....................1
Influenza..........................................
Other Zymotic Diseases..........................................
Total of Zymotic Diseases181084913......32.........18
II. Constitutional.Gout..........................................
Rheumatism11..................1............1
Cancer & other Tumours1688...............106.........16
Other Constitutional Diseases5324...4......1...............5
Tubercular.Phthisis and Other Tubercular Diseases422913112...2353.........42
III. Local.Nervous241410............2175.........24
Circulatory281216............11710.........28
Respiratory2412125611......94.........24
Digestive743415......2............7
Urinary88..................8............8
Generative..........................................
Locomotory..........................................
Integumentary..........................................
IV.Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality,Congenital Defects3...33...3.....................3
Old Age461828...............244.........46
V. Violence871...............62.........8
VI. All other Diseases..........................................
Totals230126104211738...611076......230