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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TABLE III.
WANDSWORTH. | Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. &c., in the Sub-District. | Sex. | Age. | Social Position. | |||||||||||||||
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Males. | Females | Under 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), 1896 | 58,101 | ||||||||||||||||||
Estimated Population in middle of 1896 | 58,698 | ||||||||||||||||||
CAUSES OF DEATH. | |||||||||||||||||||
I. Zymotic. | Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Scarlet Fever | 3 | 1 | 2 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | ||||
Diphtheria | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | ||||
Membranous Croup | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Enteric Fever | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | ||||
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Puerperal Fever | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Erysipelas | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | ||||
Measles | 58 | 22 | 36 | 12 | 44 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 56 | ||||
Whooping Cough | 53 | 26 | 27 | 23 | 29 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 9 | 42 | ||||
Influenza | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 4 | ||||
Diarrhœa & Dysentery | 44 | 13 | 31 | 35 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 9 | 35 | ||||
Hydrophobia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Other Zymotic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Totals of Zymotic Class | 181 | 74 | 107 | 73 | 89 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 149 | ||||
II. Constitutional. | Gout and Rheumatism | 11 | 4 | 7 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 4 | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
Cancer & other Tumoure | 43 | 18 | 25 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 4 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 26 | ||||
Otber Constitutional Diseases | 13 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 4 | ||||
Phthisis | 58 | 30 | 28 | .. | 1 | 3 | 13 | 30 | 10 | 1 | .. | 3 | 5 | 14 | 36 | ||||
Other Tubercular Diseases | 31 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 10 | 21 | ||||
III. Local. | Nervous | 84 | 57 | 27 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 60 | |||
Circulatory | 89 | 43 | 46 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 27 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 30 | 43 | ||||
Respiratory | 122 | 67 | 55 | 30 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 23 | 17 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 30 | 85 | ||||
Digestive | 72 | 30 | 42 | 35 | 6 | 2 | .. | 8 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 44 | ||||
Urinary | 21 | 13 | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | .. | 8 | 11 | ||||
Generative | 8 | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 6 | ||||
Locomotary | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Integumentary | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||
IV. Developmental. | Premature Birth and Low Vitality | 65 | 39 | 26 | 66 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 12 | 51 | |||
Congenital Defects | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 5 | ||||
Old Age | 52 | 20 | 32 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 16 | 33 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 37 | ||||
V. Violence | 29 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 4 | .. | 2 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 6 | 23 | ||||
VI. Ill-defined & not Specified | Ill-defined | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Not specified | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Totals | 886 | 439 | 447 | 251 | 145 | 22 | 29 | 116 | 135 | 103 | 85 | 24 | 40 | 215 | 607 |