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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 VIII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary.[Parishioners.]1893.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c.Sex.Age.Social Position
Males.Females.Under x year.From i 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 GentryProfessional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox............................
Measles............................
Scarlet Fever..........................
Typhus Fever............................
Enteric Fever............................
Puerperal Fever............................
Diphtheria............................
Whooping Cough2112..2..............2
Erysipelas312..........12......3
Diarrhoea, Dysentry, and Cholera113224..............4
Other Zymotic Diseases413..........13......4
Total of Zymotic Diseases1349426....25......13
II. Const, tu-tional.Gout11..........1..........1
Rheumatic Fever11..........1..........1
Cancer & other Tumours835..........8........8
Other Constitutional Diseases1..1..........1........1
Tubercular.Phthisis362115112..2311......36
Tabes Meas413224..............4
Hydrocephalus............................
Scrofula211........1..1......2
III. Local.Nervous20119......11126......20
Circulatory21129..........912......21
Respiratory301713112..2179......30
Digestive211..........11......2
Urinary844........143......8
Generative3..3........111......3
Locomotory............................
Integumentary............................
IV.Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Delects11..1..1..............1
Old Age754............7......7
V. Violence321..........3........3
VI. All other Diseases11............1........1
Totals1028478961511090........162