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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 VIII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary. [Parishioners.] 1894.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c.Sex.Age.Social Position
Males.Females.Under 1year.From1 to 5 years.Total under 5 years.From5 to 155 years.From15 to 25 years.From 25 to 65 years.65 years and upwards.Nobility and GentryProfessional Class. Merchants, Bankers, See.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes
I. Zymotic.Small-pox............................
Measles312123..............3
Scarlet Fever............................
Typhus Fever............................
Enteric Fever11........1............1
Puerperal Fever1..1..........1........1
Diphtheria............................
Whooping Cough............................
Erysipelas312............12....3
Diarrhœa, Dysentry, and Cholera3121..1......2......3
Other Zymotic Diseases1..1..........1........1
Total of Zymotic Diseases12482221..34......12
II. Constitutional.Gout11............1........1
Rheumatic Fever211..........11......2
Cancer & other Tumours954..........81......9
Other Constitutional Diseases2..22..2..............2
Tubercular.Phthisis362214........135........36
Tabes Mesa.321......2..1........3
Hydrocephalus1..1......1............1
Scrofula............................
III. Local.Nervous191271..1..1710......19
Circulatory20119......11117......20
Respiratory19109..11..2511......19
Digestive6..4..........51......6
Urinary2..2......1..1........2
Generative............................
Locomotory1..1..........1........1
Integumentary............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Detects2..22..2..............2
Old Age1459............14......14
V.Violence211......11..........2
VI.All other Diseases2111..1....1........2
Totals15377768311768049......153