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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 1899

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1899

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Table: TABLE XIII. Statistics of Mortality.

TABLE XIII. Statistics of Mortality.

West Battersea.Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c.Sex.Age.Social Position
Population (Census) 1896, 93,385.Males.Females.Under 1 year.1 to 5 years.All under 5 years.5 to 15 years.15 to 25 years.25 to 65 years.65 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Estimated mean population (excluding institutions) for 1899, 98,474.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox..........................................
Measles3218141216284...............230
Scarlet Fever..........................................
Typhus Fever..........................................
Enteric Fever743...11123.........16
Continued Fever..........................................
Puerperal Fever5...5...............5.........14
Diphtheria9631671...1.........36
Membranous Croup4221231..................4
Whooping Cough27522131326...1............423
Erysipelas413...11......12......13
Diarrhoea, Dysentery & Cholera48242441546......2.........840
Influenza258172...21...14813417
Other Zymotic Diseases1...11...1.....................1
Total of Zymotic Diseases162689471441158326101324134
II. ConstitutionalGout211...............11.........2
Rheumatism853.........512......116
Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional402020...............291111434
Diseases4...44...4.....................4
Tubercular.Phthisis and other Tubercular Diseases1346371141125920764...231101
III. Local.Nervous1044064271643313819...3992
Circulatory79354421361045152...671
Respiratory2301111195244961177411218209
Digestive834439544581413721377
Urinary20119...111...141...2315
Generative4...4............121......13
Locomotory321123.....................3
Integumentary..........................................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality, and Congenital Defects1428755142...142...............28132
Old Age1174473...............1116841590
VViolence3623131161712124......234
VIAll other Diseases44...1...11...2............4
Totals1172558614379129508464933523415211251011