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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 VII, STATISTICS OF MORTALITY,

WEST BATTERSEA.[exclusive of Public Institutions.]Population (Census) 1891, 83,314.Estimated mean population for middle of 1893, 90,226.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.Proie.-sional Class, Merchants. Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks. &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
I, Zymotic.Small-pox............................
Measles13675813..............13
Scarlet Fever8262571............8
Typhus Fever............................
Enteric Fever761..11222......16
Puerperal Fever7..7........34......16
Diphtheria51232842832171..1..1248
Whooping Cough6524412534596..........164
Erysipelas1495617..151......14
Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Cholera613427524561..4..2..158
Other Zymotic Diseases31181312311215......31
Total of Zymotic Diseases2571221359583178288367216248
III. Constitutional.Gout22............2........2
Rheumatic Fever523......1211......5
Cancer & other Tumours391227......1..24141....36
Other Constitutional Diseases1156628....121....10
Tubercular.Phthisis8539461..171461211479
Tabes Mesa5482224111521..1......351
Hydrocephalus12666393............12
Scroiula............................
III. Local.Nervous9644622020404421271....88
Circulatory6425139......3340183..160
Respiratory28813715172571293288661211274
Digestive7945343243683239....277
Urinary271611..........2071..224
Generative7..7..11..24..1....6
Locomotory11..........1..........1
Integumentary211..11......1......2
IV.Develop-mental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects1578275157..157........211153
Old Age451134..........3423....42
V.Violence4733141562024192..1..46
VI.All other Diseases............................
Totals12786156634451876326143344198176391216