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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.

TOOTING.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c , in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.Deaths in Public Institutions within the District.
Population (Census) 1896, 7207Mules.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 and under 45 Years!From 45 to 6?> YearsFrom to 7.") Years75 Years and Upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Mer-chants, Bankers Ac.Middle and Trading Class.Industrial & Labouring Class.
Estimated Population 7282 in middle0 of 1895
CAUSES OF DEATH.Parishioners.Non-Parishioners.
I. Zymotic.Small Pox....................................
Scarlet fever94484656065272............688..94
Diphtheria1767510171021106221..........5171..176
Membranous Croup....................................
Tvphus Fever....................................
Enteric Fever....................................
Continued Fever....................................
Relapsing Fever....................................
Puerperal Fever....................................
Cholera1..1..........1..........1......
Erysipelas....................................
Measles11562811................110..6
II Constitutional.Whooping Cough624246................15..1
Influenza211..........2............2....
Diarrhoea & Dysentery5412..2....1....1..1..4....
Hydrophobia....................................
Oilier Zymotic Diseases....................................
Totals of Zymotic Class295125160201751959045....1..114280..277
Gout and Rheumatism....................................
Cancer & other Tumours725..........124..1..22..1
Other Constitutional Diseases11....11..................1..1
Phthisis Other Tubercular1064........162..11..54....
Diseases2..2112..................2....
III. Local.Nervous221............*2........12....
Circulatory1688......1225221428....
Respiratory1210264101....1..1..211....
Digestive8252141....11....116....
Urinary211..........2............2....
Generative....................................
Locomotary....................................
Integumentary....................................
IV.Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality and2..22..2................12....
Congenital Defects Old Age422................4..2..2....
vViolence11..1..1..................1....
All Other Diseases....................................
Totals2561711942418221692718127112820224..281

* One of these was a Parishioner of Streatham.