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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 1897

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

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Table: TABLE VII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

TABLE VII. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WEST BATTERSEA.Population Census) 1896, 93,385.Estimated mean population including institutions, for middle of 1897, 95,903.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, Mer-chants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and LabouringClasses, &c.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox..........................................
Measles5224281138493..................51
Scarlet Fever321...221..................3
Typhus Fever..........................................
Enteric Fever523.........122.........14
Puerperal Fever..........................................
Diphtheria20128114155...............119
Whooping Cough4116252020401..................41
Erysipelas4131...1......21.........4
Diarrhœa, Dysentery & Cholera763343581169......2511668
Influenza642............141.........6
Other Zymotic Diseases..........................................
Total of Zymotic Diseases209941139185176113107119196
II. Constitutional.Gout33..................121...11
Rheumatism7251...12211.........7
Cancer & other Tumours501436...............351531838
Other Constitutional Diseases5234...4......1.........14
T uber-cular.Phthisis1025547325416743...2793
Other Tubercular Diseases462422241640312.........343
III. Local.Nervous944846291746512517111082
Circulatory914150...1173522812583
Respiratory18496885241935246383110170
Digestive80305o456515...18612572
Urinary311714............3226......526
Generative7...7............25............7
Locomotory1...1...............1............1
Integumentary111...............2............2
IV. Develop-mental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality, and Congenital Defects1659075165...165...............57153
Old Age642935...............26241554
V. Violence47311616218411212......146
VI. All other Diseases6241...1...131......24
Totals119257961343117060146353121981516791082