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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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Parish of Streatham.

TABLE III.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

STREATHAM.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Population Census, 189654,338Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.All under 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 ClassMiddle and Trading Class.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Estimated Population, Middle of 1896 56,907
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. ZYMOTIC.Small Pox................................
Scarlet Fever2..21..11................2
Diphtheria633..115..........1..14
Membranous Croup................................
Typhus Fever................................
Enteric Fever..312........111......1..2
Continued Fever................................
Relapsing Fever..
Puerperal Fever1..1..........111..........1
Cholera................................
Erysipelas................................
Measles261115915242............1421
Whooping Cough3514211518332..............431
Influenza12482..2..21..52......12
Diarrhœa & Dysentery2114721..21................120
Hydrophobia................................
Other Zymotic Diseases................................
Totals of Zymotic Class10647594834821033152121093
II. Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism1073......113131..127
Cancer & other Tumours501535......1..42612744735
Other Constitutional Diseases1..1..........1............1
Tuber-cular..Phthisis3019111..1..813512..••723
Other Tubercular Diseases13766394..........2..38
III. Local.Nervous603327154192171678105738
Circulatory6936331..133102419944655
Respiratory1035152341549214181514951574
Digestive2412129110..3263..2..418
Urinary231013......12685122613
Generative6..6........231....11..4
Locomotory211112..................2
Integumentary................................
IV.. Developmental.Premature Birth Low Vitality and Congenital Defects )56263056..56..............2846
Old Age472324..............1037421031
V. Violence171075..5..15411....215
VI. All other Diseases................................
Totals617297320176582342425611108182392887463