Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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APPENDIX.
TABLE I.
TABLE OF DEATHS in the District during the year 1896, classified according to Diseases and Ages and shewing also the Population of the District and the Births therein during the year.
Population at all ages. | Mortality from all causes at subjoined ages. | Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Persons under 5 years of age. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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At Census 1891. | Estimated to middle of 1896. | Registered Births. | All ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | Age. | Small Pox. | Measles. | | Scarlatina. | | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Contind. Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Rheumatic Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | ||
Typhus. | Enteric or Typhd | Other or doubtful. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5425 | 5700 | 174 | 67 | '20 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 13 | Under | 1 | 3 | 3 | 18 | ||||||||||||||
5 and upwards | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||
At all ages | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 40 |
The subjoined numbers have to be
Deaths outside the District of persons belonging thereto. | 9 | 2 | 7 | Under 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 and upwards | 1 | 1 | 7 |
TABLE II.
Shewing the estimated population, the Annual Birth-rate, and certain Death-rates, for each of the twenty-three years, 1874-96.
Years. | POPULATION Estimated to middle of each year. | Registered Births. | Deaths from all Causes. | Deaths of Infants under 1 year | Deaths from Pulmonary Consumption. | Deaths from other 1 Lung Diseases. | |||||
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Number. | Rate per 1000 of the population. | Number. | Rate per 1000 of the population. | Number. | Per cent. to Regd. Births. | Number. | Rate per 1000 of the population. | Number | Rate per 1000 of the 1 population. | ||
1874 | 4035 | 137 | 33.9 | 68 | 16.8 | 20 | 14½ | 2 | 0.5 | 4 | 1.0 |
1875 | 4148 | 136 | 32.7 | 80 | 19.2 | 12 | 18¾ | 6 | 1.4 | 5 | 1.2 |
1876 | 4261 | 143 | 33.5 | 77 | 18.0 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 1.6 | 13 | 3.0 |
1877 | 4374 | 145 | 33.3 | 63 | 14.4 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1.1 | 9 | 2.0 |
1878 | 4460 | 140 | 30.8 | 73 | 16.3 | 22 | 15¾ | 8 | 1.8 | 11 | 2.5 |
1879 | 4510 | 170 | 37.4 | 83 | 18.4 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 1.5 | 22 | 4.9 |
1880 | 4610 | 149 | 32.8 | 74 | 16.0 | 26 | 17¼ | 6 | 1.5 | 12 | 2.6 |
1881 | 4850 | 151 | 31.1 | 78 | 16.1 | 19 | 12½ | 10 | 2. | 9 | 1.9 |
1882 | 4900 | 176 | 36.0 | 89 | 18.0 | 29 | 16½ | 7 | 1.2 | 13 | 2.6 |
1883 | 4950 | 136 | 27.5 | 75 | 15.1 | 14 | 10¼ | 10 | 2.2 | 18 | 3.6 |
Average of 10 years | 32.7 | 16.8 | 13¼ | 1.5 | 2.5 | ||||||
1884 | 5000 | 144 | 28.8 | 71 | 14.2 | 16 | 13¼ | 3 | 0.6 | 10 | 2.3 |
1885 | 5050 | 152 | 30.2 | 61 | 12.0 | 20 | 13¼ | 5 | 1.0 | 12 | 2.3 |
1886 | 5100 | 145 | 28.4 | 71 | 14.0 | 15 | 10½ | 8 | 1.5 | 13 | 2.5 |
1887 | 5150 | 144 | 28.0 | 67 | 12.0 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 0.9 | 5 | 0.9 |
1888 | 5200 | 135 | 26.0 | 77 | 15.0 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 1.1 | 12 | 2.2 |
1889 | 5300 | 180 | 34.0 | 65 | 12.2 | 21 | 13¾ | 6 | 1.1 | 6 | 1.1 |
1890 | 5400 | 148 | 27.4 | 83 | 15.4 | 24 | 16¼ | 12 | 2.2 | 14 | 2.6 |
1891 | 5450 | 167 | 30.6 | 88 | 16.1 | 16 | 9 ½ | 8 | 1.5 | 8 | 1.5 |
1892 | 5500 | 158 | 29.0 | 84 | 15.3 | 19 | 12 | 5 | .9 | 2.7 | |
1893 | 5550 | 158 | 28.5 | 75 | 13.5 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 0.7 | 12 | 2.2 |
Average of 10 years. | 29.1 | 14.0 | 11½ | 1.2 | 2.0 | ||||||
1894 | 5600 | 162 | 29.0 | 81 | 14.5 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 0.4 | 14 | 2.5 |
1895 | 5650 | 175 | 31.0 | 101 | 17.9 | 31 | 17¾ | 10 | 1.8 | 18 | 3.2 |
1896 | 5700 | 174 | 30.5 | 76 | 13.3 | 20 | 10½ | 8 | 1.4 | 7 | 1.2 |
N.B.—The deaths of Parishioners in the Workhouse are included in this table.