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Battersea 1896

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

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Particulars of deaths in Public Institutions within the Parish
other than the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary.
Parishioners.
Bolingbroke Hospital Female 47 years Cancer
„ „ Male 45 years Kidney disease
„ „ Male 29/12 years Accident—burns
„ „ Male 51 years Suicide—cutthroat
„ „ Female 84 years Accident—run over
,, „ Male 24 years Suicide—shot
„ „ Male 65 years „ —poisoning
,, ,, Female 13 years Accident—run over
„ „ Female 52 years Cancer
„ „ Female 63 years Accident—fracture
of skull
„ „ Male 69/12 years Accident—run over
Masonic School Female n years Brain
Non-Parishioners.
Bolingbroke Hospital Female 54 years Cancer
„ „ Female 48 years Caves of spine
„ „ Male 49 years Respiratory
,, „ Male 33 years Accident—fracture
of skull
„ „ Female 57 years Digestive
,, „ Female 45 years Heart Disease
„ „ Male 20 years Accident—fracture
of skull
,, „ Male 68 years ,, —run over
,, ,, Male 39 years Kidney disease
„ „ Male 36 years Accident—fracture
of skull
„ „ Female 69 years Cancer
Westminster Union
Schools Female 1 year Brain
„ „ Female 2 years Measles
,, ,, Female 3 years „
Ages at The deaths under one year during 1896 were nine
hundred and thirty-seven in number, equal to a deathrate
of one hundred and seventy-four per thousand births. The
total deaths at all ages under five years were one thousand four
hundred and thirty-two, being two hundred and sixty-seven per
thousand births.