[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 30

Wandsworth 1887

[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 II.Statistics of Mortality.

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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.
i. Zymotic.	Small-pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles			33	20	13	15	15	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	31
	Scarlet Fever			18	13	5	2	12	1	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	2	16
	Simple Continued Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			3	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Puerperal Fever			7	..	7	..	..	..	..	2	1	..	..	..	..	1	6
	Diphtheria			8	3	5	2	6	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	7
	Whooping Cough			58	24	34	23	31	4	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	52
	Erysipelas			7	1	6	3	..	..	..	1	1	1	1		3	1	3
	Diarrhœa & Dysentery.			99	54	45	70	18	3	..	..	..	8	..	..	1	3	95
	Infantile Cholera			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Other Zymotic Diseases			13	10	3	6	2	3	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	2	11
Totals of Zymotic Class				246	126	120	121	84	14	2	12	2	10	1	..	4	19	223
ii. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism..			2	2	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
	Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional			14	5	9	..	..	..	..	1	7	6	..	..	1	1	12
	Diseases			5	2	3	5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	4
	Tubercular	Phthisis		75	31	44	..	3	1	8	36	23	4	..	..	2	7	66
		Tabes Mesa		73	32	41	55	16	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	1	3	69
		Hydrocephalus		14	10	4	6	6	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	12
		Scrofula		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
III. Local.	Nervous			121	69	52	32	28	12	2	8	13	22	4	..	3	19	99
	Circulatory			37	18	19	..	..	..	..	9	13	14	..	1	1	5	30
	Respiratory			226	105	121	69	70	11	3	12	22	35	4	..	3	32	191
	Digestive			20	8	12	3	..	..	1	2	6	6	2	..	4	3	13
	Urinary			17	10	7	..	1	..	..	2	7	7	..	..	1	5	11
	Generative (Parturition)			5	1	4	..	..	..	..	4	1	..	..	..	..	..	5
	Locomotory			1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..		..			..	..	1
	.Integumentary			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..					..		..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth, Low Vitality & Congenital Defects.			102	49	53	100	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	99
IV. Developmental.	Old Age			21	9	12	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	10	1	2	5	13
V. Violence				37	28	9	13	5	5	4	2	6	2	..	..	..	5	32
VI. IIIdefined and Not Specified			IIIdefined	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
VI. IIIdefined and Not Specified			Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals				1016	506	510	404	215	47	23	89	101	116	21	2	23	110	881