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Battersea 1893

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1893

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TABLE VI. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

EAST BATTERSEA. Population (Census) 1891, 67,144. Estimated mean population for middle of 1893, 69,949.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c. in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position
Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.Total under 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 to 65 years.65 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks. &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
1, Zymotic.Small-pox............................
Measles77393810607061......2471
Scarlet Fever9451b621..........9
Typhus Fever............................
Enteric Fever734......412........7
Puerperal Fever8..8........17......17
Diphtheria372215223251011....1234
Whooping Cough4618281034442..........244
Erysipelas3211..1....2........3
Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Cholera55243143750....23....451
Other Zymotic Diseases301812..663313511226
Tot.al of Zymotic Diseases272130142671352022782781415252
11. Constitutional.Gout............................
Rheumatic Fever844..11313........8
Cancer & other Tumours23320..........176....122
Other Constitutional Diseases10553361..21......10
Tubercular.Phthisis81453625721454411b73
Tabes Mesa34211329534............232
Hydrocephalus12667512..............12
V Scrofula............................
III. Local.Nervous782850211637412313..2175
Circulatory502030325..32517....248
Respiratory30114715477761531477849..16294
Digestive4430142032334772..438
Urinary18135........2124....117
Generative3..3..........3........3
Locomotory211..11....1........2
Integumentary22..2..2..............2
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects1347163134..134..........13130
Old Age361917............361..332
V. Violence43291413..13103152....340
VI. All other Diseases826...22..15........8
Totals1159576583378254632644427214769471098