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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

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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94
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Infantile
Mortality.
The deaths of infants under one year of age
(parishioners) numbered 24, being equal to
to 126 per 1,000 births registered during the year.
Senile
Mortality.
Fifteen of the deaths registered were of
persons of the ages of seventy years and
upwards, and they are here tabulated with classifications
as to sex.

Table: TABLE IV.

TABLE IV.

AGE.Males.Females.Total.
At 70 and under 75224
75 „ 80347
80 „ 85314
85 „ 90......
90 „ 95......
95 „ 100......
Totals8715

Table: social Position. The following indicates the proportion of deaths in the several social grades :

social Position. The following indicates the proportion of deaths in the several social grades :

Nobility and Gentry3 =0.8 per cent.
Professional Classes8 =2.4 „
Middle and Trading Classes30 =8.2 „
Industrial and Labouring
Classes324 =88.6 „
Total Deaths36510.0

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inquests. Five deaths only were referred to the
Coroner, compared with eighteen during the previous
year. In two cases inquests were held with the
following verdicts:—