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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 1885

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

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Table: TABLE I.Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1885, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-district.

TABLE I.

Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1885, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-district.

POPULATION of entire District, (Census) 1881, 210,434. Official Population in middle of 1885, 248,410. Area in Statute Acres, 11,695.Total Deaths from each class of Disease in the entire District.Sub-Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position.
East Battersea—Population, 66,654. Area in acres, 947,West Battersea—Population, 64,317. Area in acres, 1,396.Clapham—Population, 40,832. Area in acres. 1,233.Putney—Population, 14,830. Area in acres. 2,176.S treat bam, Tooting and Balham—Population. 30,280. Area in acres, 3,465.Wandsworth—Population, 31,567. Area in acres, 2,478.Males.Females.Under 1year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 10 years.From 10 to 20 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, &cMiddle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks,&cIndustrial and Laboring Class.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
1. Zymotic.("Small Pox511.........31411...21...............14
Measles140496334219726818108131...............110129
Scarlet Fever1135.........365...7211...............38
Typhus Fever...............................................................
Enteric Fever419985642120111...111611...151025
Puerperal Fever238103...2......23.........221...............419
Diphtheria2882435612163186......1.........3619
Whooping Cough17847742517248593829141...............423151
Erysipelas17572......3984......1336.........314
Diarrhoea, Dysentery, & Cholera1936363164123510687161153257...1531156
Other Zymotic Diseases1.........1......1...1..............................1
Totals of Zymotic Class637193234621834973133242712512522441014...21993533
II. Constitutional."Gout, and Rheumatism32119312617151......310711...141215
Cancer and other Tumours105183116811213174...3......9494137111869
Other Constitutional Diseases237812411112112...13231...3218
TubercularPhthisis40691138481943671962101817115017412412...122278294
Tabes Mesa15962717...71290691312111311...1322133
Hydrocephalus69279106983039263193...............71052
Scrofula301213...2310201210132l1...11622
III. Local.Nervous59410417880266114531028415472161650120146201729145403
Circulatory2785110840172636130148111114397812111251767169
Respiratory9823033271202910210150447829322616862152199261732155778
Digestive1863652301333228210131794196059312195897
Urinary81163066111250312241832302652446
Generative4271671562401......2211341121029
Locomotory11351......238221......24...1...28
Integumentary914...1...336411...21...............9
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects259825536940371481112572.....................1248199
1712254317233163108...............28584131133114
V. Violence973229849156433398...3162261...11680
VI. Illdefined & notspecified20415......1...12841......474.........317
Illdefined not sp'fd.1...1...............1..................1............1
Totals41921071139550167423628206921231268659941314676837401501161968023078