[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 50

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 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
I. Zymotic.	Small-pox				..	..	..		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles				46	27	19		6	33	5	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	3	43
	Scarlet Fever				30	16	14		..	17	10	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	28
	Typhus Fever				..	..	..		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever .				14	7	7		..	2	3	3	2	4	..	..	..	2	1	11
	Puerperal Fever				9	..	9		..	..	..	2	7	..	..	..	..	..	3	6
	Diphtheria				15	8	7		1	5	7	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	12
	Whooping Cough				54	19	35		20	32	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	51
	Erysipelas				12	4	8		2	..	..	1	1	3	3	2	..	..	1	11
	Diarihœa, Dysentery, and Cholera				76	41	35		64	10	..	..	..	1	..	1	1	..	8	67
	Other Zymotic Diseases				..	..	..		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class					256	122	134		93	99	27	12	11	8	3	3	2	3	22	229
II Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism.				16	8	8		..	1	2	1	3	4	5	..	..	..	6	10
	Cancer & other Tumours				33	9	24		..	..	..	..	2	17	14	..	2	1	7	23
	Other Constitutional Diseases				21	6	15		8	..	1	1	4	1	6	..	3	1	2	15
	Tubercular		Phthisis		126	84	42		1	2	..	6	54	48	15	..	..	5	11	110
			Tabes Mesa		53	32	21		33	10	3	3	3	1	..	..	2	..	..	51
			Hydrocephalus		15	11	4		6	8	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	14
			Scrofula		11	5	6		8	..	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	3	8
III. .Local.	Nervous				159	76	83		47	21	1	7	9	28	40	6	3	1	12	143
	Circulatory				91	36	55		2	1	1	..	15	29	36	5	2	3	9	77
	Repiratory				302	144	158		65	70	17	4	21	41	65	19	6	5	27	264
	Digestive				66	36	30		23	5	3	2	7	14	10	2	1	2	7	56
	Urinary				36	21	15		..	2	1	1	10	18	4	..	2	1	7	26
	Generative				14	..	14		..	..	..	..	9	4	1	..	..	..	4	10
	Locomotory				23	12	11		3	5	1	4	2	2	6	..	1	1	..	21
	Integumentary				6	4	2		1	..	..	1	1	2	1	..	..	..	..	6
IV. Developmental.		Premature Birth and Low Vitality			100	61	39		99	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	10	88
		Congenital Defects .			..	..	..		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		Old Age			67	19	48		..	..	..	..	..	..	40	27	9	••	7	51
V. Violence					26	17	9		13	..	..	2	6	4	1	..	..	..	2	24
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified				Illdefined	14	9	5		6	3	..	1	2	2	..	..	..	..	1	13
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified				Not Specified	..	..	..		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals					1435	,712	723		408	228	59	48	160	223	247	62	33	25	138	1269
* Including the deaths in the Workhouse Infirmary for the whole of the WandsworthDistrict.