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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Battersea 1896

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1896

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Table: TABLE VII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

TABLE VII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

west battersea.Total Deaths from each class of Disease.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.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes, &c.
Population Census) 1896,93,385
Estimated mean population or middle of 1896, 93,889.
0I. Zymotic.Small-pox..........................................
Measles9548472466905..................95
Scarlet Fever44............4..................4
Typhus Fever..........................................
Enteric Fever523.........2...3.........11
Puerperal Fever2...2...............2.........11
Diphtheria241212216186...............222
Whooping Cough7839393639753...............771
Erysipelas413112......11......22
Diarrhœa, Dysentery & Cholera54203443548......33......2...
Influenza954...............72...1......
Other Zymotic Diseases..........................................
Total of Zymotic Diseases27513114410612723320...166...115259
II. Constitutional.Gout..........................................
Rheumatism3...3............12...............
Cancer & other Tumours471235............1311511540
Other Constitutional Diseases12847...7113.........111
Tubercular.Phthisis.914843...11...25632...1684
Other Tubercular) Diseases5724333316493131.........57
III. Local. ___ __JL _Nervous944450252146622911...2785
Circulatory...39392...2825016......870
Respiratory2531501031004214254713i1212238
Digestive6429352493371194...3457
Urinary361818...1112239432
Generative12...12...............12............12
Locomotory11.................................1
Integumentary..........................................
IV.Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality, and Congenital Defects15382153...153...............212139
Old Age733241...............274211...
V.Violence...36121552032221......147
VI."All other Diseases3...3...22......1............3
Totals13006546464652246895443347167614861194