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Wandsworth 1886

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

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TABLE II.

PUTNEY and ROEHAMPTON.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease.Sex. Age.Social Position.
Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 10 years.From 10 to 20 years.At 20 and under 40 years.At 40 and under 60 years.At 60 and under 80 years.80 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, &c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
Population (Census) 188113,221
Official Population inmiddle of 188615,210.
Acres2,176
CAUSES OF DEATH.
Small-pox..............................
I. Zymotic.Measles42213..............1..3
Scarlatina11........................1
Diphtheria1..1....1............1....
Typhoid & Typhus Fever11..........1..............
Remittent & other Fevers..............................
Puerperal Diseases2..2........2..........11
Croup..............................
W hooping Cough187114131..............216
Erysipelas1..11................1....
Diarrhœa9279................234
Dysentery & Cholera11..1....................1
Other Zymotic Diseases..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class38142416172..3........567
II. Consti-tutional.Gout & Rheumatism..............................
Cancer & other Tumours2..2..........11........2
Tubercular19109102••..52......1117
Nervous291613142111271..4619
III. Local.Circulatory1810821....3372..558
Respiratory35171876..234112..10322
Digestive1073111....34....253
Urinary835........1331..332
Generative4..4........112....2..2
Locomotory..............................
Integumentary..............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth: Atrophy7527................115
Old Age633............24..222
Cause Unknown1..1........1............1
V.Violence22......1..1............2
Total79879252325318184110..3637106