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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 III

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

PUTNEY.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. Ac., in the Sub-District.SexAgeSocial Position
-Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 & under 45 years.From 45 under 65 years.From 65 & under 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants. Bankers, Ac.Middle and Trading Class' Shopmen, Clerks, Ac.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Population (Census), 189117,771.
Census Population in 1896.20,566
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic Diseases.Small Pox..............................
Scarlet Fever..............................
Diphtheria211....1..............11
Membranous Croup..............................
Typhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever431....1..3........112
Continued Fever..............................
Relapsing Fever..............................
Puerperal Fever..............................
Cholera..............................
Erysipelas..............................
Measles2111102163............1..20
Whooping Cough17710971................17
Influenza413........22........13
Diarrhœa & Dysentery6426..................15
Hydrophobia..............................
Other Zymotic Diseases..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class54272717236..62......2448
II. Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism..............................
Cancer & other Tumours12111..11622..265
Other Constitutional
Diseases4132......11........13
/ Tubercular.Phthisis16115..1..2751....1213
Other Tubercular
Diseases725..5..1..1........34
III. Local.Nervous281018411..5656..7912
Circulatory2812132..23693..4156
Respiratory4225171742..13510..41226
Digestive311318192..12313..1723
Urinary64..1........2• •3..132
Generative1..1........1............1
Locomotory..............................
Integumentary..............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth and Low Vitality9549................117
Congenital Defects..............................
Old Age835..............8....62
V. Violence88..2....222........26
VI. Illdefined Not specifiedIlldefined Not specified1..11....................1
Totals251122130713810829372335..2370159