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Wandsworth 1898

[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 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, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Population (Census), 1896				46,953
Official Population in middle of 1898				48,496
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Scarlet Fever				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diphtheria				7	4	3	1	2	2	2	..	..	..	..	..	2	3	2
	Membranous Croup				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Typhus Fever				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Continued Fever				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Relapsing Fever				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Puerperal Fever				3	..	3	..	..	..	..	3	..	..	..	..	1	2	..
	Cholera				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Erysipelas				3	1	2	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	1	..	..	1	2
	Measles				14	11	3	3	10	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	10
	Whooping Cough				17	9	8	6	10	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	14
	Influenza				19	10	9	..	..	1	..	4	3	8	3	..	..	10	9
	Diarrhœa & Dysentery				51	27	24	43	2	..	..	..	..	1	5	..	1	12	38
	Hydrophobia				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Other Zymotic Diseases				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class					114	62	52	53	24	5	2	8	4	9	9	..	4	35	75
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism				6	2	4	..	..	1	1	1	1	2	..	..	1	1	4
	Cancer & other Tumours				64	24	40	..	..	1	1	8	30	12	12	8	5	16	35
	Other Constitutional Diseases				9	1	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1
	Tubercular.	Phthisis			56	27	29	..	1	..	15	28	12	..	..	2	1	13	40
	Tubercular.	Other Tubercular Diseases			23	15	8	15	2	1	3	2	..	..	..	..	1	5	17
III. Local.	Nervous				67	32	35	16	4	2	..	3	16	12	14	2	7	20	38
	Circulatory				44	22	22	..	..	..	3	7	17	10	7	2	5	14	23
	Respiratory				100	51	49	23	14	..	2	7	25	11	18	3	5	32	60
	Digestive				29	10	19	4	..	1	1	6	9	6	3	2	3	9	15
	Urinary				19	13	6	1	..	1	..	2	5	5	5	2	3	5	9
	Generative				3	..	3	..	..	..	2	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	3
	Locomotory				2	..	2	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	1
	Integumentary				1	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality				43	25	18	43	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	12	28
	Congenital Defects				5	2	3	4	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5
	Old Age				25	7	18	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	24	4	3	11	7
V. Violence					18	10	8	6	..	1	..	5	6	..	..	..	1	2	15
VI. Ill-defined & not specified			Ill-defined		3	2	1	2	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3
VI. Ill-defined & not specified			Not Specified		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals					624	306	318	169	47	13	32	76	126	69	92	25	43	176	380