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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.

WANDSWORTH.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Males.FemalesUnder 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 and under 45 years.From 45 and under 65 years.From 65 and under 75 years.75 and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class. Merchants, Bankers,&c.Middle and Trading Class. Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Population (Census), 189658,101
Estimated Population in middle of 189658,698
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.Small Pox..............................
Scarlet Fever312..3..................3
Diphtheria844152..............35
Membranous Croup1..1..1..................1
Typhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever44........22......112..
Continued Fever..............................
Relapsing Fever..............................
Puerperal Fever1..1......1..............1
Cholera..............................
Erysipelas3121........11......12
Measles58223612442..............256
Whooping Cough53262723291............2942
Influenza6331..1......31....24
Diarrhœa & Dysentery441331357......1..1....935
Hydrophobia..............................
Other Zymotic Diseases..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class1817410773896322421328149
II. Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism1147..2....414..1145
Cancer & other Tumoure431825..2....420143321226
Otber Constitutional Diseases136731..2223......94
Tubercular.Phthisis583028..131330101..351436
Other Tubercular Diseases31131814113111........1021
III. Local.Nervous84572716334261787151860
Circulatory894346224210272418793043
Respiratory12267553024129231716253085
Digestive7230423562..81362152244
Urinary21138........49532..811
Generative8..8........8..........26
Locomotary..............................
Integumentary1..11....................1
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth and Low Vitality65392666..............111251
Congenital Defects6426..................15
Old Age522032..........3163324937
V. Violence2921864..28711....623
VI. Ill-defined & not SpecifiedIll-defined..............................
Not specified..............................
Totals8864394472511452229116135103852440215607