[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 96

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 III.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE III.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WANDSWORTH.			Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881 28,00 Official Population in middle of 1885 31,497 CAUSES OF DEATH.				Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 6 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 yoars 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.
I. Zymotic.	Small-pox		3	..	3	1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	2
	Measles		19	13	b	1	17	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	17
	Scarlet Fever		3	2	1	..	1	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	2
	Typhus Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever		4	2	2	..	2	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	4
	Puerperal Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diphtheria		6	4	2	1	2	2	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	4
	Whooping Cough.....		24	11	13	10	13	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	4	19
	Erysipelas		3	1	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	1
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera		35	18	17	29	4	..	..	..	..	2	..	1	2	6	26
	Other Zymotic Diseases		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class			97	51	46	43	40	5	..	4	1	4	..	1	4	17	75
u. Constitutional.	Gout, and Rheumatism		6	3	3	..	..	..	1	2	2	1	..	..	1	2	3
	Cancer & other Tumours		21	7	14	..	1	..	..	4	13	3	..	2	2	4	13
	Other Constitutional Diseases		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Tubercular	Phthisis	67	36	31	2	b	1	9	27	15	1	..	3	6	17	41
		Tabes Mesa	12	7	5	10	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	5	6
		Hydrocephalus	8	3	6	3	3	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	5
		Scrofula	3	3	..	1	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	2
III. Local.	Nervous		145	79	66	19	15	..	2	25	48	34	2	1	6	46	92
	Circulatory		36	12	24	..	..	..	2	7	7	19	1	4	2	13	17
	Respiratory		101	57	44	2b	27	2	1	7	lb	20	..	1	2	24	74
	Digestive		22	8	14	3	..	1	1	3	V	7	..	3	..	7	12
	Urinary		12	9	3	..	1	..	..	1	4	6	..	3	..	4	5
	Generative		6	1	5	..	..	..	1	2	3	..	..	..	..	..	4
	Locomotory		2	..	2		..	..	..	..	1	1	..	1	..	1	..
	Integumentary		3	2	1	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality		34	22	12	34	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	28
	Congenital Defects		3	2	1	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3
	Old Age		34	15	19	..	..	..	..	..	..	20	14	1	1	7	25
V. Violence			15	13	2	2	3	..	1	5	3	1	..	..	..	1	14
VI. Ill-defined and Ill-defined			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Not specified Not specified			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals			628	330	298	148	99	10	20	87	122	123	19	20	26	160	422