[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 64

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: STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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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.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles		25	13	12	10	14	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	19
	Scarlet Fever		3	2	4	..	4	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	5
	Typhus Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever		4	2	2	..	..	1	..	1	..	2	..	..	..	1	3
	Puerperal Fever		....	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diphtheria		10	1	9	..	6	2	2	..	..	..	..	1	1	1	7
	Whooping Cough		25	8	17	6	18	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	4	20
	Erysipelas		6	2	4	1	..	..	..	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
	Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and Cholera		24	10	14	18	4	..	..	..	1	1	..	1	2	4	17
	Other Zymotic Diseases		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class			100	38	62	35	46	6	3	3	2	4	1	3	7	17	73
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism		9	3	6	..	..	..	1	3	2	2	1	2	2	..	5
	Cancer & other Tumours		30	11	19	..	..	..	..	2	11	15	2	4	9	8	9
	Other Constitutional Diseases		7	6	1	1	..	..	..	2	3	1	..	..	3	1	3
	Tubercular	Phthisis	43	25	18	1	1	..	4	16	17	4	..	..	14	12	17
		Tabes Mesa	12	5	7	7	3	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	11
		Hydrocephalus	13	6	7	1	7	2	2	..	1	..	..	..	1	1	11
		Scrofula	7	6	1	2	3	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..
III. Local.	Nervous		81	47	34	15	10	..	1	2	23	26	4	10	17	8	46
	Circulatory		52	28	24	1	..	1	1	4	22	19	4	7	11	10	24
	Respiratory		110	42	68	17	34	..	2	5	12	31	9	10	17	16	67
	Digestive		46	25	21	15	..	1	4	8	8	10	..	1	8	12	25
	Urinary		14	10	4	..	..	1	1	1	2	5	4	3	1	3	7
	Generative		2	..	2	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	2	..	..
	Locomotory		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary		1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and \ Low Vitality.. >		46	28	18	44	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	8	8	29
IV. Developmental.	Congenital Defects ) . Old Age		18	6	12	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	14	9	3	2	4
V. Violence			9	6	3	..	2	..	..	3	3	1	..	1	1	2	5
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified Illdefined Not Specified			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified Illdefined Not Specified			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals			600	293	307	139	109	12	21	52	106	122	39	51	105	102	342