Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
WANDSWORTH. Population (Census) 1881 28,00 Official Population in middle of 1885 31,497 | Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District. | Sex. | Age. | Social Position. | ||||||||||||||
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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 of age. | At 40 and under 60 years of age. | At 60 and under 80 years of a ge. | 80 years and upwards. | Nobility and Gentry. | Professional class Merchants, Bankers, &e. | Middle and Trading- Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. | Industrial and Labouring Classes. | |||||
CAUSES OF DEATH. | ||||||||||||||||||
I. Zymotic. | Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Measles | 28 | 21 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 25 | |||
Scarlet Fever | 6 | 3 | 3 | .. | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | |||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Enteric Fever | 8 | 3 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | |||
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Diphtheria | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | 6 | |||
Whooping Cough | 31 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 16 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 8 | 22 | |||
Erysipelas | 4 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | |||
Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera | 28 | 15 | 13 | 26 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | 21 | |||
Other Zymotic Diseases | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||
Totals of Zymotic Class | 116 | 67 | 49 | 54 | 45 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | .. | 1 | 5 | 23 | 87 | |||
ii. Constitutional. | Gout, and Rheumatism | 6 | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 4 | ||
Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional | 21 | 9 | 12 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 11 | .. | 3 | 1 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Diseases | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | |||
Phthisis | 54 | 30 | 8 | 7 | .. | 9 | 21 | 16 | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | 17 | 31 | ||||
Tabes Mesenterica | 24 | 15 | 9 | 17 | 6 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 20 | |||
Hydrocephalus | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | |||
Scrofula | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||
III. Local. | Nervous | 151 | 82 | 69 | 34 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 45 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 50 | 91 | ||
Circulatory | 46 | 16 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 23 | |||
Respiratory | 135 | 70 | 65 | 31 | 41 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 32 | 99 | |||
Digestive | 30 | 17 | 13 | 11 | .. | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | .. | 3 | 3 | 7 | 17 | ||||
Urinary | 26 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 1 | .. | 15 | 10 | ||||
Generative | 4 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | |||
Locomotory | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Integumentary | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
IV. Developmental. | Premature Birth and Low Vitality | 37 | 23 | 14 | 37 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 8 | 26 | ||
Congenital Defects | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Old Age | 32 | 7 | 25 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 14 | |||
V. Violence | 17 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 16 | |||
VI. Ill-defined and Not specified | Ill-defined. | 2 | 2, | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | ||
Not specified | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||
Totals | 722 | 379 | 343 | 207 | 120 | 17 | 9 | 85 | 133 | 121 | 30 | 20 | 30 | 208 | 464 |