Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1893
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EAST BATTERSEA. Population (Census) 1891, | Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c. in the Sub-District. | |||||||||||||||
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. | Nobility and Gentry. | Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c. | Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks. &c. | Industrial and Labouring Classes. | |||||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Measles | 38 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 4 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Enteric Fever | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
Puerperal Fever | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||||
Diphtheria | 15 | 25 | 10 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | |||||||
Whooping Cough | 18 | 10 | 44 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | ||||||
Erysipelas | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | |||||
Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Cholera | 55 | 50 | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | 51 | |||||||
Other Zymotic Diseases | 30 | .. | 3 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
Tot.al of Zymotic Diseases | 272 | 130 | 142 | 135 | 202 | 27 | 8 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 15 | 252 | ||||
11. Constitutional. | Gout | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Rheumatic Fever | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | ||||
Cancer & other Tumours | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 17 | .. | .. | 1 | 22 | ||||||
Other Constitutional Diseases | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 10 | |||||
Phthisis | 81 | 45 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 54 | 1 | b | 73 | |||||||
Tabes Mesa | 21 | 13 | 29 | 5 | 34 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
Hydrocephalus | 5 | 12 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12 | ||||||
V Scrofula | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
III. Local. | Nervous | 16 | 37 | 1 | 23 | 13 | .. | 1 | 75 | |||||||
Circulatory | 50 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 5 | .. | 25 | 17 | .. | .. | ||||||
Respiratory | 301 | 147 | 154 | 153 | 78 | 49 | .. | 1 | 294 | |||||||
Digestive | 30 | 20 | 3 | 23 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | .. | 4 | ||||||
Urinary | 18 | 13 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12 | .. | .. | 17 | ||||||
Generative | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
Locomotory | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | ||||
Integumentary | 2 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |||
IV. Developmental. | Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 130 | |||||||
Old Age | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 36 | .. | ||||||||
V. Violence | 43 | 14 | .. | 3 | 15 | 2 | .. | .. | 3 | |||||||
VI. All other Diseases | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
576 | 583 | 632 | 64 | 44 | 272 | 47 | 1098 |