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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 (A)

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)
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum1301..297648Under 5................................1........1
5 upwds..............................2013152481135
Royal Hospital for Incurables ......13........67Under 5............................................
5 upwds............................3..22..1513
St. Peter's Hospital2..........2Under 5............................................
5 upwds....................................112
The Prison711....4Under 5........................1......1........2
5 upwds..................................2....35
Patriotic Ayslum for Girls............Under 5............................................
5 upwds............................................
The Boys' Home............Under 5............................................
5 upwds............................................
The Workhouse42......11Under 5......................................112
5 upwds.................................11......2
Rest of the Sub-District799274972730217154Under 5..17..............1342382..165..24151371
5 upwds....7....4....5..2..1195381862019140428
Totals961278982940304212Under 5..17..............1342482..167..25152376
5 upwds.....7....4........2..111273971062324230585

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

Deaths occurring outside the division or districtamong persons belonging thereto.18618341047743Under 5..69................111118....11452
5 upwds.14....2................51812271757134
Deaths. occurring within the division or dis-168424109058Under 5........................l......2....126