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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 III.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WANDSWORTH.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. <fcc.. in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Population(Census), 1896 58,161 Estimated Population 63,917 in middle of 1898Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 and under 45 yearsFrom 45 and under 65 years.From 65 and under 75 years.75 and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, Ac.Middle and Trading Class. Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.Small Pox
Scarlet Fever1111
Diptheria147776177
Membranous Croup
Typhus Fever
Enteric Fever43111213
Continued Fever
Relapsing Fever
Puerperal Fever653214
Cholera
Erysipelas3121111?,
Measles3419151420529
W hooping Cough25121312121817
Influenza25141111111108213714
Diarrhoea & Dysentery83542971111141761
Other Zymotic Diseases
Totals of Zymotic Class19411084995285711842945138
Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism124813611156
Cancer & other Tumours3382541913341313
Other Constitutional Diseases945512,1117
Tuber-cular.Phthisis..Other Tubercular7432421114292351242345
Diseases41231822114121..111128
111. Local.Nervous101623912192727162353063
Circulatory106446253124224209103453
Respiratory1648183432411222325254939112
Digestive431825172145833231622
Urinary1693118212248
Generative7715134
Locomotory1111
Integumentary
mental.Premature Birth andLow Vitality5735225721441
Congenital Defects199101811513
Old Age5514411342312130
Violence2921841415941121115
III. defined III- defined not Specified Not specified
lot Specified Not specified
Totals9614724892789829401231811091033354275599

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