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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 1861

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Table: The following table gives the number of deaths registered during 1861 from all causes, and amongst all classes, together with the sex, and ages at death at eight different periods.

The following table gives the number of deaths registered during 1861 from all causes, and amongst all classes, together with the sex, and ages at death at eight different periods.

CLAPHAM.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Population in 1861, 20,890. Area in Acres, 1,233.Males.Females.Total.Under 1 Year.From 1 to 5 Years.From 5 to 10 Years.Under 20 Years, including all under 10 Years.At 20 and under 40 Years of age.At 40 and under 60 Years of age.At 60 and under 80 Years of age.80 Years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Proiessional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
DISEASES. And other causes of Death
Classes:—
Small-Pox4261225...1.........213
Searlatina91322511422...............1417
Diphtheria851325613..................85
Quinsey1...11......1.....................1
Croup2...2...2...2.....................2
Whooping Cough771477...14..................212
1. ZymoticTyphus and Infantile Fever235...11311.........113
Erysipelas Metria2131......3..................12
Childbirth...11............111............1
Influenza...33...............111......12
Diarrhœa1241615......151............1312
Total473986322813783311...52160
2. Tubercular26305613322716121......41636
3. Of Brain and Nerves1721381056212582...21224
4. Of Heart8101811...5364......387
5. Of Respiratory Organs2629551542246916......21934
6. Of Digestive Organs141226103217126......2717
7. Of Urinary Organs56111......3125.........65
8. Of Organs of Generation...33...............3...............3
9.Of Joints, Bones, &c.235.........1211......122
10. Of Skin1...11......1..................1...
11. Premature Birth,Low Vitality, Malforma tion, &c.201434303134..................925
12. Of Uncertain Seat66123......31161......48
18. Age121628...............1819...21214
14. Violence2461...12...13.........15
15. Not specified29111......1271......236
Total188202390118472721737536023...23121246

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PREVALENCE AND FATALITY OF ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
In the past year a large amount of zymotic disease was noted as
prevailing in Clapham, but the above table shows that but
comparatively few of the cases treated proved fatal—indeed the