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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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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Parish of Tooting.
93
Infantile
Mortality,
The deaths of infants under one year of age
(parishioners) numbered 30, being equal to 152 per
1,000 births registered during the year.
Senile
Mortality.
Twenty-seven of the deaths registered were of
persons of the ages of seventy years and upwards, and
they are here tabulated with classification of sex.
| AGE. | Males. | Females. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|
| .. | |||
| 8 | 11 | ||
| 1 | 1 | ||
| .. | .. | ||
| .. | .. | .. | |
| Totals | 11 |
Social Position.
The following table indicates the proportion
of deaths in the several social grades :
Nobility and Gentry 8 = 2.7 per cent.
Professional Classes 7 = 2.3 „
Middle and Trading Classes 31 = 10.5 ,,
Industrial and Labouring
Classes 250 = 84.5 „
Total Deaths 296 100.0
Inquests.
Eighteen deaths were referred to the Coroner,
and in seventeen cases inquests were deemed necessary,
with the following verdicts of the respective juries: