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Wandsworth 1896

Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1896

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TABLE II. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

CLAPHAMTotal Deaths from each Class of 1 Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.SexAgeSocial Position
Population (Census). 1891}43,608 Estimated Populationin middle of 1896}47,1221Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 to 45 years.From 45 to 65 years.From 65 to 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.(Small Pox..............................
Scarlet Fever4..41i2............22,
Diphtheria945..71..1........216
Membranous Croup..............................
Typhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever33........1..........1
Continued Fever..............................
Relapsing Fever..............................
Puerperal Fever1..1........1............
Cholera..............................
Erysipelas3121....1............12
Measles3521147271..............530
Whooping Cough41192212281............1832
Influenza481....13412..246
Diarrhoea & Dysentery322111292..............2624
Hydrophobia..............................
Other Zymotic Diseases..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class14073675165546612..730103
Gout and Rheumatism523....1..31........14
Cancer & other Tumour421230....11815125541617
Other Constitutional Diseases743216.............223
Phthisis54322211`21524101....41733
Other Tuberculan Diseases24111386622..........816
III. Local.Nervous5728291442281647212797
Circulatory72353712268321012433332
Respiratory893950241715481020629061
Digestive24915631..4641..21012
Urinary16115........27164174
Generative7..7.......7........214
Locomotory1..1........1..........1..
Integumentory..............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth andLow Vitality502921491................1535
| Con genital Defects..............................
Old Age1468............3111337
V. Violence148631..2125......113
VI. III-defined-& not specifiedIII-defined Not Specified..............................
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Totals61629931716910121367810453642231192371