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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 IX. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

TABLE IX. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary.[Non-Parishioners,] 1897.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.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 LabouringClass.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox..........................................
Measles..........................................
Scarlet Fever..........................................
Typhus Fever..........................................
Enteric Fever..........................................
Puerperal Fever..........................................
Diphtheria..........................................
Whooping Cough55...325.....................5
Erysipelas..........................................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery & Cholera1...11...1.....................1
Influenza11..................1............1
Other Zymotic Diseases..........................................
Total of Zymotic Diseases761426......1............7
II. Constitutional.Gout..........................................
Rheumatism624...............15.........6
Cancer & other Tumours1679...............88.........16
Other Constitutional Diseases4224...4.....................4
Tubercular.Phthisis23167...............212.........23
Other Tubercular Diseases211112.....................2
III. Local.Nervous4182311...132114.........41
Circulatory401426............11623.........40
Respiratory4129122.........12117.........41
Digestive1971214115......31.........19
Urinary321............12............3
Generative2...2...............11.........2
Locomotory..........................................
Integumentary..........................................
IV. Develop-mental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Congenital Defects..........................................
Old Age291217...............227.........29
V. Violence651............132.........6
VI. All other Diseases..........................................
Totals2391211182653117100100.........239