[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 100

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.

WANDSWORTH. Population (Census) 1881 28,004 Official Population in middle of 1887 33,141		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.	Mobility and Gentry.	Professional Class Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring 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.	Mobility and Gentry.	Professional Class Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
I. Zymotic.	Small-pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles	20	9 1	11	5	14	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	l7
	Scarlet Fever		9 1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Typhus Fever	6	2	4	..	..	1	1	3	1	..	..	..	..	2	4
	Enteric Fever	6	2	4	..	..	1	1	3	1	..	..	..	..	2	4
	Puerperal Fever	2	..	2	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Diphtheria	2	2	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Whooping-Cough	8	3	5	4	4	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	6
	Erysipelas	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and Cholera	30	15	15	23	4	..	1	..	2	..	..	..	1	9	20
	Other Zymotic Diseases	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	• •	••
Totals of Zymotic Class		71	33	38	34	23	3	2	6	3	..	..	..	4	14	55
II. Constitutional.	Gout, and Rheumatism	11	6	5	..	..	2	1	3	1	4	..	1	3	3	4
	Cancer & other Tumours	16	6	10	..	..	1	..	2	6	7	..	3	..	4	9
	Other Constitutional Diseases	5	3	2	2	1	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	2	3
	Tubercular - Phthisis	70	34	45	..	5	1	11	30	26	6	..	..	4	24	51
	Tabes Mesenterica..	30	16	14	24	4	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	5	24
	Hydrocephalus	1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Sciofula	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..
III. Local.	Nervous	115	62	53	23	11	3	1	13	33	27	4	7	5	40	63
	Circulatory	32	16	16	1	2	..	..	5	10	13	1	2	3	3	24
	Respiratory	110	56	54	27	21	4	2	5	19	28	4	2	5	24	79
	Digestive	30	11	19	3	..	..	1	5	12	9	..	3	2	9	16
	Urinary	17	13	4	..	3	..	1	3	5	5	..	..	3	5	9
	Generative	2	..	2	..	..	..	..	2,	..	..	..	..	..	1 ..	1
	Locomotory	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1 ..	1
	Integumentary	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	••
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth, Low Vitality, and Congenital Defects	38	18	20	37	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	13	23
IV. Developmental.	Old Age	36	15 5	2l	..	..	..	..	..	..	15	21 ..	3	3	13	17
V. Violence		13	15 5	8	2	1	1	1	2	3	3	21 ..	..	1	4	8
VI. Ill-defined and Ill-defined. Not specified Not specified			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		2		2	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	2
Totals		610	295	315	153	72	17	20	78	122	118	30	21	36	166	387