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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 III.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

TOOTING.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c , in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.Deaths in Public Institutions within the Sub-District.
Population (Census) 1891, 5784Males.Females.UnderlYear.From 1 to 5 Years.All under 5 years.From 5 to 15 Years.From 15 to 25 Years.From 25 and under 45 YearsFrom 45 and under 6.i Years!From 05 and under 75 Years75 Years and Upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers &c.Middle and Trading Class Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
Estimated Population in middle of 1895 6250Parishioners.Non- Parishioners.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.Small Pox....................................
Scarlet Fever6033274414515..............456356
Diphtheria11860583727537411........51133115
Membranous Croup....................................
Typhus Fever....................................
Enteric Feverl..1........................1....
Continued Fever....................................
Relapsing Fever....................................
Puerperal Fever....................................
Cholera....................................
Erysipelas....................................
Measles211..22..................2..2
Whooping Coughl..1..11............1..........
Influenza2..2..............111..1....
Diarrhoea & Dysentery5233141................6....
Hydrophobia....................................
Other Zymotic Diseases..................................
Totals of Zymotic Class18996931011712753421111191786173
11.Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism33..............111....12....
Cancer & other Tumours422................11..12....
Other Constitutional Diseases....................................
Tubercular.Phthisis211......2................2....
Other Tubercular Diseases3I2..11..11............3....
III. Local. *fNervous†19136358..22433..212‡1..
Circulatory963....i11241..35....
Respiratory228146282123......1615‡13
Digestive7432131......1..1123..1
Urinary44............112......13‡11
Generative1..1..........1............1....
Locomotory....................................
Integumentary....................................
iv. Developmental.Premature Birth....................................
Low Vitality and139413..13..............238....
Congenital Defects )....................................
Old Age624..............241..23....
V. Violence*146823551..1........113....
All Other Diseases....................................
Totals296155141361291656471215171687312509178

*0f these, two were of Non-Parishioners from Walworth and Marylebone respectively.
† Of these, one was of a Chelsea parishioner dying in this district.
‡ These deaths occurred at Newlands House.