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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TOOTING. Population (Census) 1891 5246 Official Population 5276in middle of | Total Deaths from each Class_ of Disease, &c., in the Sub.District. | Sex. | Age, | Social Position | ||||||||||||||
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Males. | Females. | Under 1 Year. | From 1 to 5 Years. | From 5 t 15 Years. | From 15 to 25 Years. | From 25 and under 45 Years | F rom 45 arfd under 65 Y ears | From 65 and under 75 Y ears | 75 Years and Upwards. | Nobility and Gentry. | Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers &c. | Middle and Trading Class Shopmen, Clerks, &c. | Industrial & Labouring Classes | |||||
CAUSES OF DEATH. | ||||||||||||||||||
I. Zymotic. | Small Pox | |||||||||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Membranous Croup | ||||||||||||||||||
Tvphus Fever | ||||||||||||||||||
Enteric Fever | ||||||||||||||||||
Continued Fever | ||||||||||||||||||
Relapsing Fever | ||||||||||||||||||
Puerperal Fever | ||||||||||||||||||
Cholera | ||||||||||||||||||
Erysipelas | ||||||||||||||||||
Measles | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Whooping Cough | ||||||||||||||||||
Influenza | ||||||||||||||||||
Diarrhœa & Dysentery | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
Hydrophobia | ||||||||||||||||||
Other Zymotic Diseases | • • | |||||||||||||||||
ii. Constitutional. a | Totals of Zymotic Class | 13 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||
Gout and Rheumatism | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
Cancer & other Tumours | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||
Other Constitutional | ||||||||||||||||||
Diseases | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Phthsis | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||
Other Tubercular | ||||||||||||||||||
Diseases | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
Nervous | 16 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | ||||||
III. Local 1. | Circulatory | 12 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||||||
Respiratory | 27 | 10 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 18 | |||||
Digestive | 9 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
Urinary | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | . 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Generative | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
Locomotory | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Integumentary | ||||||||||||||||||
IV. Developmental. | Premature Birth and Low Vitality | 8 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||
Congenital Defects | .. | |||||||||||||||||
Old Age | 10 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||||
V. Violence | Accident | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Suicide | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
VI.llldefined& Not Spcified | Illdefined | |||||||||||||||||
Not Specified | ||||||||||||||||||
Total | 131 | 57 | 74 | 31 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 26 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 31 | 85 |