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Wandsworth 1890

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

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TABLE III.

PUTNEY.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Males.Females.Under 1 Year.From 1 to 5. years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.At 25 and under 35 years.At 35 and under J 5 years.At 55 and under 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, &c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
Population (Census) 189117,771
CAUSES OF DEATH.
1. Zymotic.Small-pox..............................
Measles1046361..............19
Scarlet Fever..............................
Typhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever11..........1..........1..
Puerperal Fever1..1........1............1
Diphtheria..............................
Whooping Cough85335..................8
Erysipelas1..11....................1
Diarrhœa, Dysentery & Cholera..............................
Other Zymotic Diseases..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class2119117111..2..........219
II Constitutional.Gout & Rheumatism523....121..1......23
Cancer & other Tumours862..1......241..152
Other Constitutional Diseases211......2............11
TubercularPhthisis281711..2..210131....2422
Tabes Messenterica2..22................1..1
Hydrocephalus..............................
Scrofula11......1..............1
III. Local.____Nervous34181095123581..21418
Circulatory187111....1358....3510
Respiratory42231996....29124..21526
Digestive201016131..1..281....419
Urinary523........1..22. ...32
Generative22........11........11
Locomotory..............................
Integumentary..............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth and Low Vitality26161026..................521
Congenital Defects..............................
Old Age413..............4......4
V. Violence96321....3111..216
VT. Illdefined and Not Specified1..11....................1
Totals234119115702731126384514..1662156