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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 VIII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

TABLE VIII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary.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.All 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.
[Parishioners,] 1896.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox..........................................
Measles3113...3.....................3
Scarlet Fever..........................................
Typhus Fever..........................................
Enteric Fever11..................1............1
Puerperal Fever1...11............1
Diphtheria..........................................
Whooping Cough..........................................
Erysipelas31213
Diarrhœa, Dysentery &) Cholera1611510313......21.........16
Influenza..........................................
Other Zymotic Diseases..........................................
Total of Zymotic Class2415913316......62.........24
II. Constitutional.Gout2...2...............11.........2
Rheumatism431............3...1.........4
Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional18711............1107.........18
Diseases2...21...1......1............2
T ubercular.Phythisis Other Tubercular Diseases43 330 213 1... ...... 111 13 ...39 1... ...... ...... ...... ...43 3
III. Local.Nervous221391...1......181.........22
Circulatory23149............3137.........23
Respiratory271982...221139.........27
Digestive11831121...44.........11
Urinary1073.........1171.........10
Generative..........................................
Locomotory211...............2............2
Integumentary..........................................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality andCongenital Defects11...1...1.....................1
Old Age441925...............21.........44
V. Violence321...............21.........3
VI. All other Diseases..........................................
Totals239141981952461211978.........239