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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Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1889, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-District.
POPULATION of entire District, (Census) 1881, 103,172. | Total Deaths from each class of Disease in the entire District. | Sub-Districts. | Sex. | Age. | Social | Position | |||||||||||||||
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Clapham—Population, 43,138. Area in acres, 1,238. | Putnry Population, 17,771, Area in acres. 2,176. | Streatham-Population, 42,000 Areainacres. 2,904. | looting—Population, 5,700. Area in acres, 561. | Wandsworth—population 4o,ra4. Area in acres, 2,433. | Males. | Females. | Under 1 year. | From 1 to 5 years. | From 5 to 10 years. | From 10 to 20 years. | From 20 to 40 years. | From 40 to 60 years. | From 60 to 80 years. | 80 years and upwards. | Nobility and Gentry. | Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c. | Middle & Trading Class. | Industrial and Labouring Classes. | |||
Official Population in middle of 1890, 151,736. Area in Statute Aores, 9,352. | |||||||||||||||||||||
CAUSES OF DEATH. | |||||||||||||||||||||
I. Zymotic. | Influenza | 21 | 4 | .. | 10 | .. | 7 | .. | 14 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 7 | 5 | .. | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
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Whooping Cough | 95 | 16 | 8 | 34 | 2 | 35 | 48 | 52 | 43 | 50 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 21 | 67 | |
Measles | 87 | IV | 10 | 12 | 1 | 47 | 48 | 39 | 18 | 63 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 6 | 18 | |
Scarlatina | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | ||
15 | 4 | 1 | .. | 10 | .. | 12 | 8 | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 11 | ||||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Enteric Fever | 14 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | .. | 5 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 6 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 6 | 6 | |
Diarrhoea, Dysentery & Cholera.. Erysipelas | 73 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 37 | 34 | 41 | 59 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | 8 | 15 | 49 | ||
5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
Puerperal Fever Other Zymotic | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 4 | ||
Diseases | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
Totals of Zymotic Class | 322 | 67 | 21 | 79 | 10 | 145 | 14' | 175 | 131 | 136 | 12 | 2 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 25 | 63 | 232 | ||
II. Constitutional. | Gout, and Rheumatism | 33 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 20 | .. | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 14 |
Cancer and other Tumours | 89 | 29 | 8 | 26 | 2 | 24 | 28 | 61 | .. | 1 | 1 | 7 | 37 | 38 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 26 | 39 | ||
Other Constitutional Diseases .. | 38 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 25 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 22 | ||
Phthisis | 185 | 46 | 28 | 36 | 6 | 69 | 90 | 95 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 66 | 73 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 45 | 121 | ||
Tabes Mesa | 43 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 22 | 29 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 30 | ||||||
Hydrocephalus | 32 | 16 | 4 | 12 | IS | 13 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 22 | |||||||
Scrofula | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
Ill .Local. | Nervous | 294 | 77 | 34 | 68 | 12 | 103 | 155 | 139 | 73 | 42 | 4 | 12' | 18 | 51 | 80 | 14 | 9 | 34 | 97 | 154 |
Circulatory | 150 | 57 | 18 | 28 | 7 | 40 | 61 | 89 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 22 | 41 | 65 | 9 | 7 | 25 | 46 | 72 | |
Respiratory | 473 | 139 | 42 | 95 | 20 | 177 | 231 | 237 | 106 | 75 | 8 | 2 | 27 | 79 | 143 | 33 | 15 | 34 | 135 | 289 | |
Digestive | 123 | 26 | 26 | 29 | .. | 42 | 51 | 72 | 29 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 24 | 42 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 34 | 65 | |
Urinary | 50 | 15 | 5 | 13 | !7 | 22 | 28 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 5 | 11 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 16 | ||
Generative | 18 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | ||||||||
Locomotory | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Integumentary | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
IV. Develop- mental. | Premature Birth, Low | 159 | 44 | 26 | 43 | 5 | 41 | 93 | 66 | 152 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 40 | 117 |
Vitality Congenital Defects | 15 | .. | .. | 2 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 15 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | ||
Old Age | 104 | 27 | 4 | 40 | 9 | 24 | 37 | 67 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 38 | 66 | 17 | 14 | 47 | 26 | |
V | . Violence | 66 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 27 | 32 | 34 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 50 | |
VI. | IUdefined & | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||
not specified | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
Totals | 2213 | 599 | 234 | 495 | 98 | 787 | 1035 | 1178 | 592 | 322 | 42 | 65 | 218 | 357 | 473 | 143 | 71 | 212 | 635 | 1295 |