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Wandsworth 1864

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

Published
1865
Pages
48
Tables
14

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14 tables in this report

  • Page 9
    The following table will be found to contain a summary of all the causes of death arranged in accordance with the classification of the Registrar-General, shewing the sex, social position, and age at death at different periods, and particularizing the several diseases of the zymotic class.
    WANDSWORTH. Population in 1861—13,346. Area in Acres—2,478. DISEASES, And other Causes of Death. Diseases Classified.Total Deaths from each Class in Disease, Ac., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position
    Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 10 years.Under 20 years, including all under10 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.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
  • Page 11
    The following Table exhibits the deaths which resulted from the principal epidemic diseases during the past and eight preceding years, and the relation which they bore to the deaths from all causes.
    YEARS.Small PoxMeasles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever— Typhus and Typhoid.Total Deaths from Epidemics.Total Deaths from all causes.Per cent. age of deaths from Epidemics to deaths from all causes.
  • Page 15
    MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.
    Years.185618571858185918601861186218631864
  • Page 17
    As usual, I here affix the much approved mortality table, which gives the number of deaths from each class of disease and the causes, as well as the age, sex, and social position of every person who died and whose death was registered in this parish, during the past year.
    CLAPHAM. Population in 1861—20,894. Area in Acres—1,233. DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, Ac., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.Females.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.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, Ac.Middle A Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, Ac.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
  • Page 24
    The following table gives the number of deaths that have been registered during the year 1864, from all causes, and amongst all classes, specifying the sex, age and social position of the deceased.
    BATTERSEA. Population in 1861—19,952. Area in Statute Acres—2,343 DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, Ac., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.Females.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.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, Arc.Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks,Industrial & Labouring Classes.
  • Page 28
    A perusal of the Table which follows, will furnish many other particulars most interesting to the sanitarian, and will, moreover, by reason of its setting forth so clearly the relative number of all classes who have succumbed to disease, accident, &c., during the past year, afford, a no less important indication as to the direction which our future eflorts to save human life should be chiefly exerted.
    STREATHA.M, including TOOTING and BALHAM. Population in 1861—10,082. Area in Statute Acres—3,465. DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.Females.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 aud Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle &c Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
  • Page 33
    STATISTICS OF MORTALITY, &c.
    PUTNEY and ROEHAMPTON. Population in 1861—6,481. Area in Statute Acres—2,176. DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.Females.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.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
  • Page 36
    Progress of Mortality—The table which follows points out, as usual, the fluctuations of fatal disease at the different periods of the year, as well as the rise and fall of the mortality from all causes in connection with the principal meteorological readings.
    REGISTERED CAUSES OF DEATH.NUMBER OF DEATHS.
    1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.
    January, February, March.April, May, June.July, August, September.October, November, DecemberThe Year.
  • Page 43
    APPENDIX OF STATISTICAL TABLES. TABLE I. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the Entire District during 1864, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-District.
    POPULATION of ENTIRE DISTRICT. In 1861,-70,381. Area in Statute Acres, 11,695. DISEASES. And other Causes of Death.Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., in the entire District.Sub Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position
    Clapham—Population in 1861, 20,890, area in acres, 1,233.Wandsworth—Population in 1801, 13,340. area in acres, 2,478.Battersea—Population in 1861, 19,582, area in acres, 2,343.Putney—Population in 1861,6,481, area in acres, 2,176.Str. atham. Tooting, and Balham, Population, 1861, 10,082. area in acres. 3,465.Males.Females.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.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
  • Page 44
    TABLE II. Births registered during the year ended 31st December, 1864.
    SUB-DISTRICT.Males.Females.Total.
  • Page 44
    TABLE III. Meteorological Means for 1864, from Observations taken at Greenwich.
    Jan., Feb., and March.April, May, and June.July, Aug., and September.Oct., Nov., and December.The Year.
  • Page 45
    TABLE IV. Showing the total Deaths from the principal Epidemic Diseases registered in each Sub-District, and in the entire District, and the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1855-64.
    Years.Deaths prom Epidemics in each Sub-Distbict.Entire District.
    Clapham.Battersea.Wandsworth.Putney.Streatham.Total Deaths from Epidemics.Total Deaths Registered.Per centage of Deaths from Epidemics to Total Deaths.
  • Page 46
    TABLE VI. Summary of the Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1864.
    Clapham.Battersea.Wandsworth.Putney and Roehampton.Streatham, including Tooting and Balham.Totals.
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    TABLE V. Cases of Sickness amongst the out-door Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, and the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the Tear ending December 31st 1861. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.
    SUB-DISTRICTS.Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.1—Small Pox.2—Measles.3—Scarlatina and Malignant Sore Throat.4—Whooping-cough.5—Diarrhoea and Dysentery.6—Cholera.7—Fever.8—Erysipelas.9—Puerperal Fever.10—Lung Diseases, except Phthisis.11—Phthisis.12—Hydrocephalus, Atrophy, Scrofula, and Convulsions of Children.13—Other Diseases.14—Violence, Privation, and Premature Birth.Total Deaths in each Sub-District.
    Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.