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Battersea 1894

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1894

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TABLE VII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WEST BATTERSEA. [excluding Public Institutions.] Population (Census 1891, 83,314. Estimated mean population for middle of 1894, 91,965.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.Provisional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
I, Zymotic.Small-pox............................
Measles123655826901167..........3120
Scarlet Fever1..1......1............1
Typhus Fever............................
Enteric Fever972..11125........9
Puerperal Fever2..2........11........2
Diphtheria2918111171810....1....227
Whooping Cough381721201838..............38
Erysipelas5322..2....21......5
Diarrhœa, Dysentery and Cholera41221929736......5......39
Other Zymotic Diseases229131..1..1137......18
Total of Zymotic Diseases270141129791332121942114....11259
II. Constitutional.Gout11..............1......1
Rheumatic Fever523......1..31......5
Cancer & other Tumours4416281..1....3211..1637
Other Constitutional844314..22......17
Tubercular.Phthisis964947..4461270411490
Tabes Mesa3017131718291..........129
Hydrocephalus20101010717..1........119
Scrofula............................
III. Local.Nervous98554327164332203011591
Circulatory7133382..25..45191..268
Respiratory2231121116763130325632....8215
Digestive5425291631923237....549
Urinary2311121..11..138..1..22
Generative6..6..........6......33
Locomotory211......1..1........2
Integumentary11..1..1...............1
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects1386276138..138..........15132
Old Age401426..........1391..237
V.Violence331419104143385......33
VI.All other Diseases321......1..11......3
Totals1166570596372213615482930217245541103