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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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The following two tables, A and B, are inserted at the request of the medical officer of the Local Government Board to
ensure a uniform method of classification over the entire Kingdom. The same information is given under different
forms in the various other tables:—

Table(B)

TABLE OF deaths during the Year 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Tooting; classified according to Diseases Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics ; public institutions being shown as separateMortality from all causes at subjoined Ages(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.12345671 81 910111213141516171819202122
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total.
{Columns for Population and Births are in Table 2?.)Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)
tooting1203519533523Under 5....1................5214..16....22354
5upwds............................17913..23466
fountain fever hospital, Tooting1617975241Under 5..2866................10..................104
..............5 upwds1343....••........1..................57
tooting home for Aged Paupers13........112Under 5............................................
............5 upwds................................23....813
..............Under 5............................................
..............5 upwds••..........................................
Totals294421165773735Under 5..2867................15214..16....223158
5 upwds..1343................1....171116..242136

The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality.

Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto.261132109Under 5........................................22
5 upwds......................••..1....35••21224
Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto.174796524114Under 5..2865................10..................103
5 upwds••1343................1........22....1071