London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1867
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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three classes above them. The proportion in 1806 was 70
deaths of the labouring classes to 51 of three classes above
them, but in the past year the numbers were nearly equal,
viz., 65 of the former to 63 of the latter.
6. A large increase (comparing the numbers in the
tables of the past and previous years, which are respectively
63 and 49) in the mortality of infants, and of children and
young persons dying between the ages of 1 and 20 years.
7. A number exactly equal in the two years, (6), of
persons dying at advanced ages, that is to say, at 80 years
and upwards, (the oldest 95), an increase of 8 between 20
and 40, and a decrease of 12 and 2 respectively, in the
number dying between 40 and 60, and between 60 and 80
years.
| YEARS. | Number of Deaths from all Causes. | No. of Deaths from Seven of the principal Epidemic Diseases. | Percentage of Deaths from seven principal Epidemics to Deaths from all Causes. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Although 4 more deaths, it will be seen, took place from
Zymotic diseases in 1867 than in 1866, a reference to the
general table of mortality will show that this increase is
more than accounted for by an unusual number of children