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

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TABLE I.

BIRTHS.					RATES.
Sub-Districts.		Males.	Females.	Total.	Birthrate.	Rate of Natural Increase.

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TABLE II.

DEATHS.					Death-rate.
Sub-Districts.		Males.	Females.	Total.	Death-rate.

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TABLE III. Birth-rates, Death-rates, and rates of Natural Increase in the entire district during the ten years 1877—86, compared with those of the year 1887.

Years.	Births.	Birth-rate per 1000.	Deaths.	Death-rate per 1000.	Natural Increase.	Rate of Natural Increase per 1000.

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TABLE IV. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

CAUSES OF DEATH.	Number in Entire District.	East Battersea.	West Battersea.	Clapham.	Putney.	Streatham.	Wandsworth.	Union Infirmary.	General and Special Hospitals.	Asylums Board Hospitals.

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TABLE V.

SUB-DISTRICTS.	Population in the middle of 1887.	Percentage of TotalPopulation.	Density of Population— Number of Persons to an Acre.	Relative Mortality per cent, of Industrial and other Classes.		Death-rate per 1,000 excluding deaths in Public Institutions, within and without the Sub-district.	Death-rate per 1,000 including deaths in Outlying Institutions, excluding deaths and inmates in Public Institutionswithin the Sub-district.
SUB-DISTRICTS.	Population in the middle of 1887.	Percentage of TotalPopulation.	Density of Population— Number of Persons to an Acre.	Industrial Classes.	Other Classes.

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TABLE VI. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1887, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-district.

POPULATION of entire District, (Census) 1881, 272,764, Official Population in middle of 1887, 257,742, 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, 72,550. Area in acres, 947.			West Battersea—Population, 70,213. Area in acres, 1,396			Clapham—Population. 43,045. Area in acres, 1,233.			Putney—Population, 15,590. Area in acres. 2,176.			Streatham. Tooting and Balham—Population 38,225. Area in acres. 3.465.			Wandsworth—Population, 33,141. Area in acres, 2,478.		Males.			Females.		Uuder 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 age.			80 years and upwards.		Nobility and Gentry.		Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c		Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks,&c			Industrial and "Laboring Class.
CAUSES OF DEATH						East Battersea—Population, 72,550. Area in acres, 947.			West Battersea—Population, 70,213. Area in acres, 1,396			Clapham—Population. 43,045. Area in acres, 1,233.			Putney—Population, 15,590. Area in acres. 2,176.						Wandsworth—Population, 33,141. Area in acres, 2,478.		Males.			Females.		Uuder 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 age.			80 years and upwards.		Nobility and Gentry.		Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c		Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks,&c			Industrial and "Laboring Class.

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TABLE VIII. Showing the total number of deaths and their causes registered in the entire District, during the eleven years 1877-87, with the relative numbers of each class of disease.

DISEASES, And other causes of Death		1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887

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TABLE IX.

	Whole District.	East Battersea.	West Battersea.	Clapham.	Putney.	Streatham.	Wandsworth.

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TABLE X. Number of cases of Infectious Diseases admitted into the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals during 1887.

	Small Pox.	Scarlet Fever.	Enteric Fever.	Typhus Fever

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TABLE XI.

SUB-DISTRICTS.	Number of Births Returned from 1st January to 31st December, 1886.	Successfully Vaccinated.	Insusceptible of Vaccination.	Had Small-pox.	Dead Unvaccinated.	Postponed by Medical Certificate.	Removed to Districts Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised.	Removed to places unknown, or which cannot be reached; and cases not having been found.

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TABLE XII.

Verdicts.	Sub-Districts.
	Total.	Battersea		Clapham	Putney	Streatham	Wandsworth
		East	West

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TABLE XIII. Cases of Sickness amongst the Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1886. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.

SUB - DISTRICTS.		Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.	Total Deaths in each Sub-District.	1—Small Pox.		2—Measles.		3—Scarlatina.		4—Diphtheria.		5—Whooping Cough.		6—Diarrhœa and Dysentery.		7—Cholera.		8—Fever.		9—Erysipelas.		10-Puerperal Fever.		11—Lung Disease except Phthisis.		12—Phthisis.		13—Hydrocephalus, Atrophy. Scrofula and Infantile Convulsions		14—Violence, Privation, and Premature Birth		16—Other Diseases.
SUB - DISTRICTS.		Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.	Total Deaths in each Sub-District.	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths	Cases	Deaths

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TABLE XIV. Summary of Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1887.

	East Battersea.	West Battersea.	Clapham.	Putney.	Streatham and Tooting.	Wandsworth.	Total.

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TABLE I. Birth and Death Bates.

YEARS.	Births.	Birth-rate.	Deaths from all Causes.	Death-rate.	Natural Increase.

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TABLE II. Statistics of Mortality.

EAST BATTERSEA. Population (Census) 1881 64,675 Official Population in middle of 1887, 72,550				Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c.. in the Sub-district.	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 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, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Laboring Classes.
CAUSES OF DEATH.					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 age.	80 years and upwards.	Nobility and Gentry.	Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Laboring Classes.

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TABLE III. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

EAST BATTERSEA.		Sex.		Age.			Institutions.
EAST BATTERSEA.	Total.	Male.	\| Female.	Under .	1 to 60.	60 and upwards.	Union Infirmary	General & Special Hospitals.	Asylums Board Hospitals.	Lunatic County Asylum.
Disease.	Total.	Male.	\| Female.	Under .	1 to 60.	60 and upwards.	Union Infirmary	General & Special Hospitals.	Asylums Board Hospitals.	Lunatic County Asylum.

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TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the East Battersea Sub-district.

	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887

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TABLE V. Comparative Table of Deaths from Non-Zymotic Diseases for 11 years, 1877-87.

Diseases.	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1886	1886	1887

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rate, the effect probably of earlier marriages. In 1887 the numbers were:—

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TABLE I.

WEST BATTERSEA Population (Census) 1881 52,587 Official Population in middle of June, 1887 70,213					Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c„ in the Sub-District,	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 of age.	At 40 and under 60 years of age.	At 60 and under 80 years of age.	80 years and upwards.	N obility and Gentry	Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring
CAUSES OF DEATH.						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 age.	80 years and upwards.	N obility and Gentry	Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring

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TABLE II. Zymotic Mortality in the West Battersea Sub-district.

	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887

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The following table contrasts all deaths from nonzymotic causes during the past 10 years.

	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887

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TABLE IV. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

WEST BATTERSEA.		Sex.		Age.			Institutions.
Disease.	Total.	Male.	Female.	Under 1.	1 to 60.	60 and upwards.	Union Infirmary	General & Special Hospitals.	Asylums Board Hospitals.

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TABLE I. Birth and Death rates.

YEARS.	Births.	Birth rate.	Deaths from all Causes.	Death rate.	Rate of Natural Increase.

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TABLE IT. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.	Total.	Sex.			Age.		Institutions.
		Male.	Female.	Under 1.	1 to 60.	60 and upwards.	Union Infirmary.	General & Special Hospitals.	Asylums Board Hospitals.

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STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

CLAPHAM. Population Census 1881 36,380Official population in middle of 1887 43,045 CAUSES OF DEATH.			Total deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	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 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, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c	Industrial and Labouring Class.

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TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in Clap ham.

	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887

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The date, locality, and other particular of these 20 cases are given in the following table:-

Date of Onset.	Address.	No. of Cases.	School Attended.	Drains	History of Infection.	Result of Case.	Remarks.

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TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.

YEARS.	Births.	Birth-rate.	Deaths from all Causes.	Death-rate	Rate of Natural Increase.

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TABLE II.

PUTNEY		Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881	18,221	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.
Official Population in middle of 1887	15,590.
CAUSES OF DEATH.

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TABLE III. Deaths at Outlying Institutions.

		Sex.			Age.		Institutions.
DISEASE.	Total.	Male.	Female.	Under 1.	1 to 60.	60 and upwards.	Union Infirmary.	General & Special Hospitals.	Asylumns Board Hospitals.

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TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the Putney & Roehampton Sub-district.

Zymotic Mortality.	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	18 6	1887

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TABLE I. Births and Death Rates.

YEARS.	Births.	Birth-rate.	Deaths from all Causes.	Death-rate.	Rate of Natural Increase.

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These additional deaths are exhibited in the following table, which shows the nature of the cause of death, the age and sex of the deceased, and the character of the institution in which they died.

DISEASE.	Total.	Sex.		Age.			Institutions
DISEASE.	Total.	Male.	Female.	Under 1	1 to 60.	60 and upwards.	Union I0nfirmary	General & Special Hospitals.	Asylums Board Hospitals.

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STATISTICAL OF MORTALITY

STREATHAM, including TOOTING & BALHAM.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
STREATHAM, including TOOTING & BALHAM.	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 age.	80 years and upwards.	Nobility and Gentry.	Professional Class, j Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Laboring Classes.
Population (Census) 1881 25,553
Official population in middle of 1887 38,225
CAUSES OF DEATH.

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TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the Streatham Tooting Sub-district.

	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887

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Deaths in 0ullying Institutions.

DISEASE.	Total.	Sex.		Age.			Institutions.
DISEASE.	Total.	Male.	Female	Under 1.	1 to 60.	60 and upwards	Union Infirmary.	General and Special Hospitals.	Asylums Board Hospitals.

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Birth and Death Rates.

Team.	Births.	Birth- rate.	*Deaths from all causes.	Death-rate.		Rate of Natural Increase.
Team.	Births.	Birth- rate.	*Deaths from all causes.	Corrected.	Uncorrected.	Rate of Natural Increase.

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STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WANDSWORTH. Population (Census) 1881 28,004 Official Population in middle of 1887 33,141		Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	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 of age.	At 40 and under 60 years of age.	At 60 and under 80 years of age.	80 years and upwards.	Mobility and Gentry.	Professional Class Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
CAUSES OF DEATH.			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 age.	80 years and upwards.	Mobility and Gentry.	Professional Class Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.

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The proportion per cent. of the total deaths, as well as of those from zymotic diseases in relation to the social position of the deceased, is shewn in the subjoined table:—

Social Position.	Total Deaths.		Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.
Social Position.	1887.	Decennial Average.	1887.	Decennial Average.

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THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE WANDSWORTH DISTRICT. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ADDRESSED BY THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH FOR THE WANDSWORTH DISTRICT TO THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH OF THE UNDERMENTIONED TOWNS.

	What plan of Notification is in force in your town ?			Do you regard yours as the best system of Notification ; or what other plan would you prefer ?	Does the plan work without friction with Householders or Medical Practitioners ?	Have many cases occnrred in which legal penalties require to be enforced against persons refusing to notify ?	REMARKS.
	a. Compulsory on Practitioner in attendance.	b. Compulsory on Householders.	c. Compulsory on both.				REMARKS.

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	What plan of Notification is in force in your town ?			Do you regard yours as the best system of Notification ; or what other plan would you prefer ?	Does the plan work without friction with Householders or Medical Practitioners ?	Have many cases occnrred in which legal penalties require to be enforced against persons refusing to notify ?	REMARKS.
	a. Compulsory on Practitioner in attendance.	b. Compulsory on Householders.	c. Compulsory on both.				REMARKS.

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	What plan of Notification is in force in your town?			Do you regard yours as the best system of Notification; or what other plan would you prefer ?	Does your plan work without friction with Householders or Medical Practitioners ?	Have many cases occurred in which legal penalties require to be enforced against persons refusing to notify ?	REMARKS.
	a. Compulsory on Practitioner in attendance.	b. Compulsory on Householders.	c. Compulsory on both.				REMARKS.

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TABLE I.

TABLE II.

TABLE III. Birth-rates, Death-rates, and rates of Natural Increase in the entire district during the ten years 1877—86, compared with those of the year 1887.

TABLE IV. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE V.

TABLE VI. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1887, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-district.

TABLE VIII. Showing the total number of deaths and their causes registered in the entire District, during the eleven years 1877-87, with the relative numbers of each class of disease.

TABLE IX.

TABLE X. Number of cases of Infectious Diseases admitted into the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals during 1887.

TABLE XI.

TABLE XII.

TABLE XIII. Cases of Sickness amongst the Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1886. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.

TABLE XIV. Summary of Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1887.

TABLE I. Birth and Death Bates.

TABLE II. Statistics of Mortality.

TABLE III. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the East Battersea Sub-district.

TABLE V. Comparative Table of Deaths from Non-Zymotic Diseases for 11 years, 1877-87.

rate, the effect probably of earlier marriages. In 1887 the numbers were:—

TABLE I.

TABLE II. Zymotic Mortality in the West Battersea Sub-district.

The following table contrasts all deaths from nonzymotic causes during the past 10 years.

TABLE IV. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE I. Birth and Death rates.

TABLE IT. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in Clap ham.

The date, locality, and other particular of these 20 cases are given in the following table:-

TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.

TABLE II.

TABLE III. Deaths at Outlying Institutions.

TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the Putney &amp; Roehampton Sub-district.

TABLE I. Births and Death Rates.

These additional deaths are exhibited in the following table, which shows the nature of the cause of death, the age and sex of the deceased, and the character of the institution in which they died.

STATISTICAL OF MORTALITY

TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the Streatham Tooting Sub-district.

Deaths in 0ullying Institutions.

Birth and Death Rates.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

The proportion per cent. of the total deaths, as well as of those from zymotic diseases in relation to the social position of the deceased, is shewn in the subjoined table:—

THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE WANDSWORTH DISTRICT. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ADDRESSED BY THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH FOR THE WANDSWORTH DISTRICT TO THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH OF THE UNDERMENTIONED TOWNS.

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TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the Putney & Roehampton Sub-district.