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Wandsworth 1888

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

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Table: TABLE VI.Summar y of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1888, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-district.

TABLE VI.

Summar y of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1888, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-district.

POPULATION of entire District, (Census) 1881, 210,434, Including Battersea 103,172. Excluding Battersea. Official Population in middle of 1888, 139,078, Area in Statute Acres, 9,352.Total Deaths from each class of Disease in the entire District.Sub-Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Clapham—Population, 43,045. Area in acres, 1,233.Putney—Population, 15,590. Area in acres. 2,176.Streatham, Tooting and Balham—Population, 38,225. Area in acres, 3,465.Wandsworth—Population, 33,141. Area in acres, 2,478.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, Hankers, &cMiddle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks,&c.Industrial and Laboring Class.
CAUSES OF DEATH
1. Zymotic.Small Pox.........................................................
Measles5314......39223115371..................2843
Scarlatina145...5468265...1............329
Diphtheria5316230523306271721............71432
Whooping Cough962862240465045492...............261573
Typhus Fever.........................................................
Enteric Fever13521558......3334......14...8
Diarrhœa, Dysentery, & Cholera6415413323133528............4......41545
Erysipelas5...131323............11......1...4
Puerperal Fever61131...6.........141............33
Other Zymotic Diseases.........................................................
Totals of Zymotic Class304841677127136168123127286965...32757217
II. Constitutional.Gout, and Rheumatism1842210117...111429...11610
Cancer and other Tumours7018928151159............4273819122029
Other Constitutional Diseases1261...55752......1121......66
TubercularPhthisis16238202876758711719804311...41036112
Tabes Mesa459352835103110...4............13437
Hydrocephalus3715210102116131563...............5725
Scrofula13616...6733...3211......1111
III. Local.Nervous2987027891121591397633442954899125369164
Circulatory1604924424575852414234178711314573
Respiratory357103359112818617177924...30459910142587231
Digestive11941143034526724213183534214113559
Urinary509514223317...123817181281129
Generative72......5...7............61.........115
Locomotory.........................................................
Integumentary411112211......11.........1...3
IV. DevelopmentalPremature Birth, Low Vitality14648850408957146........................737102
Congenital Defects1037......5510...........................19
Old Age9634631253858..................425412132546
V. Violence481357232721186...341142...4935
VI. Illdefined & not specified8...13453............143.........17
Totals1964553187514710971993540304484322028943387832134581210