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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 1865

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

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Table: APPENDIX OF STATISTICAL TABLES. TABLE I. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the Entire District during . 1861, classified according to .Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative Numbers in each Sub-District.

APPENDIX OF STATISTICAL TABLES. TABLE I. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the Entire District during . 1861, 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.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Entire District.Sub-Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position
capnam—population in 1881, 20,890 area in acres, 1,233.Wandsworth—Population in 1861, 13,346, 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.Streatnam, Tooting, and Balham-popu lation 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.
DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.
Classes:—
1. ZymoticSmall Pox347522......181696793911.........698
Measles25915...1169517325..................421
Scarlatina68113392133632...42156431......181747
Diphtheria9412...263...4281............144
Quinsy21.........111...22...............2
139......2...76...11213..................310
Whooping Cough4715...24...223242425147...............11432
Typhus and Infantile............................................................
Fever7111182886363511293521114......51947
Erysipelas11...13216841...533211328
Metria, Childbirth9...311......9............9............126
Carbuncle1............1...1............1..................1
Diarrhoea & Dysentery89201947125039667755162182951
Cholera............................................................
Totals of Zymotic Class38296601811629199183117127392975217133322102255
2. Turbercular271326313528131281436193710997587...3868192
3. Of Brain and Nerve2474359115131714410366415116244652981554170
4. Of Heart9621104061353431...4121332372792555
5. Of Respiratory Or gans2705454118222012814974621141183864951052903
6. Of Digestive Or gans9123252:6125041335242823171592255
7. Of Urinary Organs22575...51210...1...159732611
8. Of Organs of Gene ration16366...1...16............5821......313
9. Of Joints, Bones, &c10811......55......1...322......244
10. Of Skin22111211
11. Premature Birth Low Vitality, Ma] formation, &c91331232694942883...91...............11674
12. Of Uncertain Seat216...6591221...426812...910
13. Age127342042834582..................63641374562
14. Violence621293344511111242118158...131444
15. Not Specified752152113630242128121322...352047
Totals178339333878511515291081347826734866257268302905493401196