[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 52

Wandsworth 1870

[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.

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APPENDIX OF STATISTICAL TABLES.

TABLE I.
Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1870, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative Numbers in each Sub-District.
POPULATION OF ENTIRE DISTRICT, In 1871, 125,050. In 1861, 70,403. Increase in 10 years interval 54,647 Assumed Population for middle of year, 1870,— 119,777. 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 1871, 27,348, area in acre, 1.233.	Wandsworth—Population in 1871,19,797, are in acres, 2,478.	Battersea—Population in 1871, 53.988, area in acres, 2,343.	Putney—Population in 1871, 9,435, area in acres, 2,176.	Streatliam, Tooting, and Balham—Population 1871, 14,479, 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 yearn.	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, Hankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen. Clerks. &c	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Classes:—
1. Zymotic	Small Pox	15	6		9			11	4	1	6	4	13	2						3	12
	Measles	46	14	2	25	4	1	24	22	6	30	4	45	1				1	2	14	29
	Scarlatina	352	45	48	239	3	17	176	176	21	210	84	342	9		1		1	13	147	191
	Diphtheria	12	2	4	5	1		8	4				12							5	4
	Quinsy	4	3		1			1	3	1	3		4							2	2
	Croup	25	10	7	6		2	13	12	5	16	4	25						2	10	13
	Whooping Cough	51	9	16	21	3	2	23	23	23	27	1	51					1	2	13	35 .
	Typhus and Infantile Fever	68	12	10	39		7	26	42	2	17	13	44	15	5	4		1	3	25	39
	Erysipelas	13	2	4	6		1	3	10	6			7	1		4	1	1	1	2	9
	Metria, Childbirth	16	4		11	1			16					14	2				1	9	6
	Carbuncle
	Influenza	1			1			1			...				1						1
	Diarrhoea & Dysentery	144	31	33	62	8	10	83	61	110	17	1	128	4	4	6	2	4	5	48	87
	Cholera or Choleraic Diarrhoea	4			4			3	1		1		2		3		1			1	3
Totals of Zymotic Class.		751	138	128	429	20	40	377	374	175	327	111	673	46	13	15	4	9	32	279	431
2. Tubercular		374	60	46	224	18	26	209	165	110	42	16	200	106		6		5	14	139	216
3. Of Brain and Nerves		365	35	91	198	18	23	200	165	75	63	12	157	32	83	83	10	18	16	131	200
4. Of Heart		132	33	18	51	9	21	59	73	4	4	2	17	18	34	58	5	5	8	51	68
5. Of Respiratory Organs		411	53	68	218	31	41	226	185	118	74	6	217	19	59	107	9	6	13	146	246
6. Of Digestive Organs		104	8	23	45	17	11	43	61	26	8	2	40	12	25	24	3	8	9	39	48
7. Of Urinary Organs .		39	5	10	10	5	9	23	16		2	2	5	7	8	16	3	5	7	18	9
8. Of Organs of Generation		8		4	4				8					4	2	2				4	4
9. Of Joints, Bones, &c.		4		2	1	1		1	3		1		3		1				1	2	1
10. Of Skin		3			3			2	1	3			3						1		2
11. Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c.		191	79	23	70	8	11	106	85	181	9		191					3	5	58	125
12. Of Uncertain Seat .		154	7	12	23	5	7	18	36	6	3	2	13	4	17	20		3	2	16	33
13. Age		133	37	18	56	8	14	58	75							63	69	12	8	39	74
14. Violence		50	5	8	29	4	4	30	20	8	7	4	25	12	7	5	1	1	3	11	35
15. Not Specified		40	20	3	14	1	2	19	21	7			10	6	16	8		2	4	12	22
Totals		2659	480	450	1376	145	209	1371	1288	713	540	157	1554	266	328	407	104	77	123	945	1514