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Wandsworth 1895

[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 II.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY

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TABLE II.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY

CLAPHAM			Total Deaths from each Class of 1 1 disease, &c. in the Sub-District. \|	Sex		Age								Social Position
CLAPHAM				Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 15 years.	From 15 to 25 years.	From 25 to 45 years.	From 45 to 65 years.	From 65 to 75 years.	75 years and upwards.	Nobility and Gentry.	Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen. Clerks. Ac.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Population (Census), 1891 43,698
Estimated Population in middle of 1895 47,238
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic. _________	Small Pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Scarlet Fever		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Diphtheria		11	6	5	1	6	4	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	4	6
	Membranous Croup		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Typhus Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever		1	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Continued Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Relapsing Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Puerperal Fever		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Cholera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Erysipelas		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles		17	8	9	3	14	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	15
	Whooping Cough		7	2	5	5	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	2	..
	Influenza		35	19	16	2	2	3	..	7	3	9	9	1	7	12	15
	Diarrhoea & Dysentery		40	21	19	29	7	..	..	..	1	1	2	..	3	8	29
	Hydrophobia		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Other Zymotic Diseases		1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Totals of Zymotic Class		114	56	58	41	31	8	..	9	4	10	11	1	13	29	71
11.Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional		42	16	26	..	..	1	..	6	20	6	9	..	5	17	20
	Diseases		2	1	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Tubercular.	Phthisis	52	22	30	..	..	4	13	23	11	1	..	..	2	13	37
	Tubercular.	Other Tubercular Diseases	9	6	3	5	2	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	7
III. Local.	Nervous		72	38	34	12	9	..	1	9	18	9	14	5	8	26	33
	Circulatory		58	32	26	1	..	2	3	6	22	14	10	2	4	25	27
	Respiratory		146	67	79	30	20	..	2	10	17	23	44	7	9	41	89
	Digestive		22	7	15	7	..	..	1	2	4	6	2	2	2	5	13
	Urinary		15	9	6	..	..	1	..	2	6	2	4	1	2	6	7
	Generative		5	..	5	..	..	..	..	6	..	..	..	..	..	..	5
	Locomotory		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality )		52	25	27	32	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	11	39
	Congenital Defects		1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Old Age		20	15	11	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	22	4	2	8	12
V. Violence			13	8	5	..	..	..	..	3	1	2	2	..	..	1	12
VI. Ill-defined Ill-defined			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
& not specified Not Specified			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals			630	303	327	156	62	17	21	76	104	77	118	22	50	183	375