Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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.
STREATHAM. | Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. | Sex. | Age. | Social Position. | |||||||||||||||
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Population Census, 1896 | 54,338 | Males. | 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 Class | Middle and Trading Class. | Industrial and Labouring Classes. | |||
Estimated Population, Middle of 1896 56,907 | |||||||||||||||||||
CAUSES OF DEATH. | |||||||||||||||||||
I. ZYMOTIC. | Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Scarlet Fever | 2 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |||
Diphtheria | 6 | 3 | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 4 | ||||
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Enteric Fever.. | 3 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | |||
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Relapsing Fever | .. | ||||||||||||||||||
Puerperal Fever | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | ..1 | |||
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Measles | 26 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 21 | |||
Whooping Cough | 35 | 14 | 21 | 15 | 18 | 33 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 31 | |||
Influenza | 12 | 4 | 8 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 5 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 12 | |||
Diarrhœa & Dysentery | 21 | 14 | 7 | 21 | .. | 21 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 20 | |||
Hydrophobia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Other Zymotic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Totals of Zymotic Class | 106 | 47 | 59 | 48 | 34 | 82 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 93 | |||
II. Constitutional. | Gout and Rheumatism | 10 | 7 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | 7 | ||
Cancer & other Tumours | 50 | 15 | 35 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 35 | |||
Other Constitutional Diseases | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||
Phthisis | 30 | 19 | 11 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 8 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | .. | •• | 7 | 23 | |||
Other Tubercular Diseases | 13 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 3 | 8 | |||
III. Local. | Nervous | 60 | 33 | 27 | 15 | 4 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 38 | ||
Circulatory | 69 | 36 | 33 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 24 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 55 | |||
Respiratory | 103 | 51 | 52 | 34 | 15 | 49 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 15 | 74 | |||
Digestive | 12 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 10 | .. | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | .. | 2 | .. | 4 | 18 | ||||
Urinary | 23 | 10 | 13 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | |||
Generative | 6 | .. | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 4 | |||
Locomotory | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |||
Integumentary | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Premature Birth Low Vitality and Congenital Defects ) | 56 | 26 | 30 | 56 | .. | 56 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 8 | 46 | |||
Old Age | 47 | 23 | 24 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 10 | 37 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 31 | |||
V. Violence | 17 | 10 | 7 | 5 | .. | 5 | .. | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 15 | |||
VI. All other Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Totals | 617 | 297 | 320 | 176 | 58 | 234 | 24 | 25 | 61 | 110 | 81 | 82 | 39 | 28 | 87 | 463 |