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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PUTNEY | Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. | Sex. | Age. | Social Position. | |||||||||||||
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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. | |||||||||||||||||
I. Zymotic. | Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Measles | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |||
Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||
Scarlet Fever | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||
Whooping Cough | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | ||
Erysipelas | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||
Diarrhoea | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Dysentery & Cholera. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
Other Zymotic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Totals of Zymotic Class | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 6 | ||
II. Constitutional. | Gout & Rheumatism | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Cancer & other Tumours | 11 | 4 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 7 | 1 | .. | 3 | 5 | 3 | ||
Tubercular | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Phthisis | 20 | 12 | 8 | 2 | .. | 1 | 4 | 9 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | 12 | ||
Tabes Mesa | 1 | 1 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | ||||
Hydrocephalus | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .... | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | ||
1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | |||
Nervous | 36 | 16 | 20 | 15 | 8 | .. | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | .. | 7 | 1 | 28 | |||
..III. Local. | Circulatory | 23 | 12 | 11 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 1 | .. | 4 | 4 | 15 | |
Respiratory | 34 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 6 | .. | .. | 2 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 19 | ||
Digestive | 20 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 1 | .. | 2 | 5 | 13 | ||
Urinary | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 4 | 9 | ||||||
Generative | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Locomotory | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .... | .. | .. | .. | ||
Integumentary | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
IV. Developmental. | Pemature Birth : | ||||||||||||||||
Atrophy | 14 | 10 | 4 | 13 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 12 | ||
Old Age | 12 | 5 | 7 | .. | .. | .... | .. | .. | .. | 8 | 4 | .. | 2 | 3 | 7 | ||
Cause Unown | .. | .. | .. | .... | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
V. Violence | 7 | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | .. | ||
Totals | 196 | 97 | 99 | 53 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 29 | 55 | 12 | 1 | 31 | 45 | 119 |