[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough] page 336

Wandsworth 1900

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Table: TABLE III.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE III.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WANDSWORTH.				Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, Ac., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (Census). 1896 58,101					Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to ]o years.	From 15 to 25 years.	From 25 and under 45 years.	From 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.
Estimated Population. in middle of 1900 69,609
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Scarlet Fever			1	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Diphtheria Membranous Croup			7	5	2	1	2	3	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	3	4
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			10	4	6	..	..	1	4	3	2	..	..	..	..	2	8
	Continued Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Relapsing Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Puerperal Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Cholera			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Erysipelas			6	2	4	1	..	..	1	..	..	4	..	..	..	2	4
	Measles			30	18	12	3	26	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	29
	Whooping Cough			9	3	6	6	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	6
	Influenza			34	15	19	1	1	2	1	5	14	7	3	..	2	14	18
	Diarrhoea & Dysentery			60	27	33	49	8	..	..	1	1	..	1	..	1	13	46
	Hydrophobia			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Other Zymotic Diseases			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class				157	74	83	61	41	7	6	9	17	12	4	..	3	38	116
II. Constitutional.	Rheumatic Fever			3	1	2	..	..	..	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	3
	Cancer & other Tumours			27	12	15	..	..	..	3	1	10	10	3	2	1	12	12
	Other Constitutional Diseases			5	2	3	2	..	..	..	..	1	1	1	..	1	1	3
		Phthisis..		95	47	48	5	4	4	16	39	19	5	3	1	7	20	67
		Other Tubercular Diseases		48	22	26	22	17	3	..	3	3	..	..	..	..	8	40
III. Local.	Nervous			93	53	40	20	11	1	1	34	17	5	4	..	4	22	67
	Circulatory			99	51	48	1	1	1	2	21	37	24	12	3	5	33	58
	Respiratory			187	106	81	53	27	3	9	20	44	20	11	2	6	41	138
	Digestive			70	42	28	30	1	2	2	6	16	6	3	2	..	21	44
	Urinary			23	14	9	2	..	..	1	6	9	2	3	..	2	6	15
	Generative			4	..	4	..	..	..	..	3	1	..	..	1	..	..	3
	Locomotory			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality			59	35	24	59	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	10	45
	Congenital Defects			7	5	2	7	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	6
	Old Age			55	25	30	..	..	..	..	..	..	12	43	3	5	17	30
V. Violence				31	23	8	6	1	1	2	9	8	3	1	1	2	8	20
VI. Ill-defined & not Specified			Ill-defined.	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
VI. Ill-defined & not Specified			Not specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals				964	512	452	269	107	22	43	152	183	100	88	15	40	241	668