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Battersea 1895

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1895

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TABEL VI. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

EAST BATTERSEA.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c. in the Sub- District..Sex.Age.Social Position
Population (Census) 1891, 67,144.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.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers. &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Estimated mean population for middle of 1895, 72,479-
1, Zymotic.Small-pox..............................
Measles6834341640626............68
Scarlet Fever431..222..1........4
Typhus Fever............................
Enteric Fever633......123........6
Puerperal Fever2..2..........2........2
Diphtheria301515422264............40
Whooping Cough211110119201............21
Erysipelas1...1............1......1
Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Cholera76383862870....24....274
Influenza441430426122510..1340
Other Zymotic Diseases11..1..1..............1
Total of Zymotic Diseases25311913498891871443315...16247
II. Constitutional.Gout................................
Rheumatism312......1..2...........
Cancer & other Tumours29722......1..2351..127
Other Constitutional Diseases22..2..2................
T uber-cular.Phthisis743539246114512....173
Other Tubercular Diseases6238242824525..5......161
III. Local.Nervous1478364345993522225...4143
Circulatory662937224124613....165
Respiratory202951076851119224336....7195
Digestive351691251711133....233
Urinary18991..11..133....216
Generative4..4..........4........4
Locomotory............................
Integumentary............................
IV.Develop-mental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects1528369152..152............7145
Old Age251114..........124....223
V. Violence412417183211496....141
VI. All other Diseases211112..............2
Totals1115553562418238656332926513211341079