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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 II.

PUTNEYTotal Deaths from each Class of Disease.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Population (Census) 188118,221Males.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 188715,590.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox..............................
Measles211..2..................2
Diphtheria11....1..................1
Scarlet Fever1..1....1................1
Whooping Cough2112................1..1
Erysipelas1..1..1..................1
Diarrhoea..............................
Dysentery & Cholera...........................
Other Zymotic Diseases..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class734241............1..6
II. Constitutional.Gout & Rheumatism............................
Cancer & other Tumours1147......1..271..353
Tubercular..............................
Phthisis201282..1494......3512
Tabes Mesa9119..................2
Hydrocephalus11..1..................1....
11..1..................1..
Nervous361620158..19262..7128
..III. Local.Circulatory2312111....119101..4415
Respiratory34171756....28122121219
Digestive20713111........71..2513
Urinary844........1151..492
Generative..............................
Locomotory................................
Integumentary..............................
IV. Developmental.Pemature Birth :
Atrophy14104131..............1112
Old Age1257..............84..237
Cause Unown................................
V. Violence743........43......16..
Totals19697995319271929551213145119