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Wandsworth 1893

Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1893

Published
1894
Author
Orr, Wm. Y., Field, Oliver., Sutton, F. F., de Lisle Brock, C., Smith, P. Caldwell.
Pages
219
Tables
124

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    LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, Showing the year in which they go out of office.
    PARISHES.NAMES.ADDRESSES.
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    LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD—continued.
    PARISHES.1 NAMES.ADDRESSES.
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    RETURN showing the Number of Attendances of Members at the Board and Committee Meetings for the year ended 25th March, 1894.
    NAMES OF MEMBERS.No. of Board Meetings attended.No. of Special Board Meetings attended.No. of Finance Committee Meetings attended.No. of General Purposes Committee Meetings attended. 1No. of General Purposes Committee Sub-Committee Meetings attended.No. of Sanitary Committee Meetings attended.No. of Balham Road Widening Committee Meetings attended.No. of Dusting Committee Meetings attended.No. of Local Committee Meetings attended.No. of Wandsworth Local Committee Sub-Committee Meetings attended.Total Number of Meetings attended.REMARKS.
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    NAMES OF MEMBERS.No. of Board Meetings attended.No. of Special Board Meetings attended.No. of Finance Committee Meetings attended.No. of General Purposes Committee Meetings attended.No. of General Purposes Committee Sub-Committee Meetings attended.No. of Sanitary Committee Meetings attended.No. of Balham Road Widening Committee Meetings attended.No. of Dusting Committee Meetings attended.No. of Local Committee Meetings attended.No. of Wandsworth Local Committee Sub-Committee Meetings attended.Total Number of Meetings attended.REMARKS
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    LIST OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD.
    Names.Offices.Addresses.Salaries.
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    LIST OF OFFICERS—Continued.
    Parishes.Names.Offices.Salaries
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    10. The effect of the Bill in your Petitioners' district, calculated upon the basis of the valuation lists in force for the year 1893-94, would be as follows, viz.:—
    PARISHES.Amount of Rate at 6d. on rateable value.Amount of Grant based upon population.Difference.Apportionment of Grant in accordance with Clause 1 (0).
    In favour.Against.
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    11. The effect of the Bill in your Petitioners' district, calculated upon the basis of the valuation lists in force for the year 1894-95, would be as follows, viz.:—
    PARISHES.Amount of Rate at 6d, on rateable value.Amount of Grant based upon Population.Difference.Apportionment of Grant in accordance with Clause 1 (6).
    In favour.Against.
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    ORDERS OF APPORTIONMENT. The following Orders of Apportionment of the estimated cost of paving new roads have been made by the Board during the year, viz.:—
    Parish.Date of Order.Name of Road.Amount of Order.
    £s.d.
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    The following Orders of Apportionment of the excess of the actual over the estimated cost of paving new roads have been made by the Board, and such excess returned to the owners of property during the year, viz.: —
    Parish.Date of Order.Date of Original Order.Name of Road.Amount of Order.
    £8.d.
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    The following Orders of Apportionment of the cost of executing necessary works of repair upon roads not repairable by the Board have been made by the Board during the year under the provisions of section 3 of the Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vic., cap. 66), viz.:—
    Parish.Date of Order.Name of Road.Amount of Order.
    £s.d.
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    The following Orders of Apportionment of the expense of flagging footways have been made by the Board during the year under the provisions of 53 and 54 Vic., cap. 54, viz.:—
    Parish.Date of Order.Name of Road.Amount of Order.
    £s.d.
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    NEW ROADS. The following applications relating to the formation of new roads in this District have been made to the London County Council during the past year:—
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    Parish. Date of Order. Name of Street and Nature of Order.
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    PARTICULARS OF NEW SEWERS.
    PARISHES.LOCALITIESLengths& Sizes.—Feet Lineal.
    4ft. 6in. by 3ft. Brick Sewer18in. | Pipe Sewer15in. Pipe Sewer12in. Pipe Sewer9in. Pipe Sewer
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    PRIVATE DRAINS. The following are the particulars of the private drains which have been constructed by the Board during the past year, the cost of which has been paid by the persons for whom the work was executed:—
    PARISHES.No. of Drains.No. of Houses &c., drained thereby.Lengths and sizes—feet lineal.Total lengths, — feet lineal.
    18-in.15-in.12-in.9-in.6-in.
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    HIGHWAYS. The following are the particulars of the quantities of the materials used in the repairs of the roads and footpaths within the District during the past year, viz :—
    MATERIALS.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Total cube yards.
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    The total length of road repaired by the Board is now 118¼ miles, showing an increase of about 4¼ miles during the year. The following are the lengths in each parish:—
    PARISHM.F.Y.
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    The cost is as follows, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    Daily Cost.£s.d.
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    The following new paving works have been executed:—
    £s.d.
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    The following sums have been expended in the parish in paving repairs, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    The following alterations and additions to pavements have been made at the cost of private owners:—
    £s.d.
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    During the past year, 8 horses, and all the necessary plant and stable utensils in connection therewith, have been purchased. The cost is as follows, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    The following are the particulars of the cost of maintenance of the stable establishment for the year, showing the keep of horses, including labour and expenses of every description, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.
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    day. The cost of working the roller during the past year was as follows, viz.:—
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    The cost of working the roller during this period has been as follows, viz:—
    £s.d.
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    The details of the cost are as follows, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Daily Cost.£s.d.
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    During the past year the following new roads have been adopted by the Board and the cost of paving them paid by the owners of the property abutting thereon, viz.:—
    Name of Road.Length in yards.Estimated Cost of Work.
    £s.d.
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    The following is the expenditure for dusting during the year, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    The scavenging work is performed by men employed by the Board and by hired carts; 9,557 one-horse loads have been carted from the roads and 1 ,923 loads from gullies. The following is the cost for the year, viz.:—
    £
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    The total cost for the year of disposing of the refuse is as follows, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    The scavenging is performed by men employed by the Board and principally by hired horses, only a small part of the work being done by the Board's houses; the carts and vans used are those belonging to the Board and the shoot for the refuse is provided by the Board. The following is the cost for the year, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    ROAD WATERING. The details of road watering during the past year are set forth in the following tabular statement:—
    PARISH.Length of Road Watered.Expenditure.
    By Water Company.Horse Hire.New Carts, Vans, and Standposts.Water, Labour, Pumping, and Repairs to Pumps, Carts, &c.Total Expenses.
    M.F.T.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
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    NEW BUILDINGS.
    PARISH.No. of Notices Received.No. of Houses.Additions to Houses, &c.Stabling, Warehouses, Shops and other Buildings.No.of Churches. Chapels, Schools, and Additions to same.Total number of Buildings.
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    DETAILS OF LIGHTING.
    PARISH.Wandsworth and Putnev Gas Company.(a) South Metropolitan Gas Company.Mitcham Gas Company.Brentford Gas Company.Total Number of Lamps in each Parish.
    Number of Lamps at £3 14 6.By meter at 2s. 8d. per 1000 feet.Total NumberNumber of Lamps at £3 13 9.Number of Lamps at £3 3 9.Number of Lamps at £5 12 0.Number of Lamps at £3 4 9.By meter at 28. 3d. per 1000 feet.Total Number.Number of Lamps at £4 4 0.N umber of Lamps at £3 7 6. (b)By meter at 3s. 8d. per 1000 feet.Total Number.Number of Lamps at £4 1 7.
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    In 16 cases proceedings were ordered to be taken against the vendors, with the following results, viz.:—
    Articles.Case No.Extent of Adulteration.Fine or other Result.
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    The following are the amounts of the Precepts of the School Board tor London paid by this District (omitting the Parish of Battersea): —
    £s.d.d.
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    The following table shows the amount in the £. of the respective rates therein mentioned which have been levied by the Overseers of the several Parishes in the District during the last five years, viz.:—
    PARISH.Year.Poor Rate.General Rate.Sewers Rate.Lighting Rate.Totals.
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    The following arc the particulars of the last three returns as regards population, and the last two returns as regards houses:—
    PARISH.Population.Number of Houses.
    In 1871.In 1881.In 1891.Inhabited 1881.Uninhabited 1881.Inhabited 1891.Uninhabited 1891.
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    The rateable value and area of the several parishes in the District are as follows :—
    PARISH.Value as per Valuation List, April 5th, 1801Value as per Valuation List, April 5th, 1894Area.
    Acres.
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    STATEMENT OF CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO DURING TEE YEAR ENDED 25 TH MARCH, 1894.
    Dates of Contracts.Names and Addresses of Contractors.Nature of Contracts.
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    STATEMENT OF CONTRACTS—con tinued.
    Dates of Contracts.Names and Addresses of Contractors.Nature of Contracts.
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    ESTABLISHMENT EXPENDITURE.
    £s.d.
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    MONEY OWING TO BOARD.
    1894. March 25th.£s.d.
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    MONEY OWING BY BOARD.
    1894. March 25th.£s.d.
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    Receipts and Payments for the
    March 25th, 1893.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Year ended 25 th March, 1894.
    March 25th, 1894. PAYMENTS.£s.d£s.d
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    THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE WANDSWORTH DISTRICT. Account in detail, showing the Receipts and Expenditure of the Board for the year ended March 35th, 1894.
    ACCOUNT.Balances on 25th March, 1893.RECEIPTS.EXPENDITURE.Balances on 25th March, 1894.
    From Overseers.Contributions towards Sewers.Private Drains.Making up New Roads.Establishment.Other Receipts.Total Receipts.Making up New Roads.Highways.Improvements.Dusting.Watering.Horses, Sc., Account.Construction of Sewers.Repairing Sewers.Cleansing Sewers.Private Drain and other Works.Lighting Public LampsSalaries (exclusive of EstablishmentEstablishment Charges.School Board Expenses.Interest on Loans.Sundries.Total Payments.
    In Favour.Against.Paid by Owners.Paid by Board.In Favour.Against.
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    ACCOUNT OF LOANS.
    Balances owing by Board on 25th March, 1893.Amounts paid off in year ended 25th March. 1894.Balances owing by Board on 25th March, 1894.
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    ACCOUNT OF LOANS, SHOWING AMOUNT OWING, &c. BY EACH PARISH.
    PARISH.Amountsowing 25th March, 1893.Amounts paid off in year ended 25th March, 1894.Amounts owing 25th March, 1894.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
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    TABLE I.
    BIRTHS.RATES.
    Sub.Districts.Males.Females.Total.Birth.rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
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    TABLE II.
    DEATHS.Death-rate.
    Sub-Districts.Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE III. Birth-rates, Death-rates, and rates of Natural Increase in the entire district during the ten years 1883—92 inclusive.
    Years.Birth-rate per 1000.Death-rate per 1000,Rate of Natural Increase.
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    TABLE IV. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.Number in Entire District.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
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    It will be seen also from this Table that for every 1,000 living there died in the Outlying Institutions:—
    1892.1893.
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    The next Table gives interesting information as to the density of population, and the relative mortality of the industrial and other classes in each sub-district:— TABLE V
    Sub-District.Population, 1893.Percentage of Total Population.Number of persons to 1 acre.Relative mortality of Industrial and other classes.
    Industria classes.Other classes.
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    TABLE VI.
    POPULATION Census 1891 156,931 Official Population in middle of 1892, 168,999 CAUSES OF DEATHSub-Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. &c., in the District.Clapham—Population, 45,537 Area in acres, 1,233Putney—Population, 18,692 Area in acres, 2,176Streatham—Population, 47,042 Area in acres, 2,904Tooting—Population, 5,806 Area in acres, 561Wandsworth—Population, 52,422 Area in acres. 2,433Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 to 45 years.From 45 to 65 years.From 65 to 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &e.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen. Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
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    TABLE VII. Showing the total number of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during the seven years 1887-93, with the relative numbers of each Class of Disease:—
    1887188818891890189118921893
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    TABLE VIII.
    188818891890189118921893
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    TABLE IX.
    Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Whole District.Corresponding figures in 1892.
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    TABLE X.
    INQUESTS.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Whole District
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    TABLE XII.
    SUB-DISTRICTS.Number of Births Returned from 1st January to 31st December 1892Successfully Vaccinated.Insusceptible of Vaccination.Had Small-pox.Dead Unvaccinated.Postponed by Medical Certificate.Removed to District, Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised.Removed to places unknown, or which cannot be reached ; and cases not having been found.
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    TABLE XIII. Summary of Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1893-
    Clapham.PutneyStreatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Total.
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    Table I. gives a comparison of these rates with those of the last ten years:— TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    YEAR.Births.Birth-rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
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    Table II. gives particulars of the number, causes of death, ages, and social position of those who have died:— TABLE II. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    CLAPHAM. Population (Census), 1891 43,698 Official Population in middle of 1893 45,537Total 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.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 to 45 years.From 45 to 65 years.From 65 to 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, Ac.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
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    TABLE TABLE OF DEATHS during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Clapham; classified according to Diseases (A) Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities.Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
    At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 23.25 and under 63.65 and upwards.12345671 81 910111213141516171819201222
    Small Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Couch.Diarrhœa and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total.
    (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.)Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)(i)
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    The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality.
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    The following Table gives particulars as to these deaths. They were 140 in number, as compared with 106 last year, and of these 60 occurred in the Union Infirmary, 50 in the general and special hospitals of the Metropolis, and 30 in those of the Metropolitan Asylums Board:— TABLE III. Deaths in Outlying District.
    DISEASES.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Males.Females.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
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    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in Clapham.
    1884188518861887188818891890189118921893
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    TABLE V.
    Number of Cases Notified.Number of Patients removed to Hospital.Number died in Hospital.Number died at Home.Total Deaths.
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    Table TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, ( B ) coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Clapham; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all AgesRegistered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1893.12345678910111234567891011
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    TABLE VI.
    188318S4188518861887188818891890189118921893Number above corrected decennia average.Number below corrected decennial average.
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    There have been 32 inquests held during the year, the following being the verdicts:—
    Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    YEARS.Births.Birth-rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death-rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
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    TABLE II. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    DISEASES.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions .
    Males.Females.Under 1.1 to 6o.6o and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospital.
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    TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    PUTNEY.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Population (Census), 189117,771.Males.Females.j Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 & under 45 years.From 45 & under 65 years.From G5 & under 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Mer-chants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    Official Populalation in middle of 189218,692.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
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    TABLE TABLE OF DEATHS during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of putney; classified according to Diseases (A) Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics ; public institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.)Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
    At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.G5 and upwards.12345678910111213141516171819202122
    Small Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping , Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Pueiperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)
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    TABLE Table of population, births, and of new cases of infectious sickness, (B) coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Putney; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all AgesRegistered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their * Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1892.12345678910111234567891011
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.1 Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in Putney and llochampton Sub-district.
    Zymotic Mortality.1884188518861887188818891890189118921893
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    Number of Notifications of Infectious Diseases received during the year, with number of cases removed to Hospital and number of deaths.
    No. of cases notified.No. of patients removed to Hospital.No. died in Hospital.No. died at Home.Total deaths.
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    TABLE 1. Birth and Death Rates.
    YEARS.Births.Brth-rates.Deaths from all Causes.Death-rates.Rates of Natural Increase.
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    TABLE II. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    DISEASE.Totals.Sex.Ages.Institutions.
    Males.Females.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
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    TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    STREATHAM. (including Balham.)Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex,Age.Social Position.
    Population 1 Census, 189142,958Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 & under 45 years.From 45 & under 65 years.From 65 & under 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, Ac.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    Official Population in middle of 189347,042
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
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    TABLE(A) TABLE OF deaths during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of streatham; classified according to diseases ages, and localties.
    names of localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities.mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.(i)mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing deaths of children under five years of age.
    At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65. ,65 and upwards. 112345678910111213141516171819201222
    Small Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping | Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.total
    (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.)Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Pueiperal.|
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)
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    TABLE (B) TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of streatham; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all AgesRegistered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases ok Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1892.12345678910111234567891011
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous 1 Croup.Fevers.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Cholera.Erysipelas,Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    The subjoined table gives the proportion of deaths in the several social grades.
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    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the Streatham Sub-District.
    1884188518861887188818891890189118921893
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    TABLE V. The following table gives the number of notified diseases, the number of cases removed to Hospital, and the number of deaths that took place, in both the Sub-district and the Hospital.
    DISEASES.Number of cases notifiedNumber of patients removed to Hospital.Number died at Hospital.Number died at Home.Total deaths in Hospital and at Home.
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    TABLE VI. Comparative Table of Non-zymotic Mortality.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.1889.1830.1891.1892.1893.
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    TABLE VII.
    Age.Males.Females.Total.
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    table vii. Cases of Sickness amongst the Parish Poor under the treatment of the District Medical Officers, with the deaths from each class of diseases, during the year ended 31st December, 1893.
    SUB-DISTRICTS.total cases of sickness treated in each SUB-DISTRICT.total deaths in each sub-district1.— Small Pox.2. —Measles.3.—Scarlatina.4.—Diphtheria.5.—Whooping Cough.6.—Diarrhoea and Dysentery.7.—Influenza.8.— Fever.9.—Erysipelas.10.—Puerperal Fever.11.—Lung Diseases, Except Phthisis.12.—Phthisis.13.—Hydrocephalus, Atrophy Scrofula and Infantile Convulsions.14.—Violence, Privation, and Premature Birth.15.—Other Diseases.16,-Age.
    CASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHSCASESDEATHS
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    Inquests. Seventeen Inquests were held, thirteen upon males and four upon females, with the following verdicts:-
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    The causes of death were as follows:—
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    TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    Tears.Births.Birth-Rates.Deaths from all causes.Death-ratesKates of Natural Increase,
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    TABLE II. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    TOOTING. 1893. Diseases.Totals.Sex.Ages.Institutions.
    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 & upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
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    TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    TOOTING.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position
    Population (Census) 1891, 5784 Official Population in middle of 1893 5306Males.Females.Under 1 Year.From 1 to 5 Years.From 5 t 15 Years.From 15 to 25 Years.From 25 and under 45 YearsFrom 45 and under 65 YearsFrom 65 and under 75 \ ears75 Years and Upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers &c.Middle and Trading Class Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial & Labouring
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
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    TABLE (A) TABLE OF DEATHS during the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Tooting ; classified according to Diseases ( A ) Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics ; public institutions being shown as separate localities.Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under / Five Years of Age.
    At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.1234561 71 81 9101112131415161718 19 20 1222
    Small Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total.
    (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.)Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)(i)
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    The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality.
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    TABLE (B) TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1S93, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of ooting ; classified according to D iseases, A ges, and L ocalities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all AgesRegistered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases ok Sickness in each Locality,coming to the knowledge of the medicalOfficer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Census 1801.Estimated to ruddle of 18 93.12345678910111234567891011
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.)
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    Below is given a table of deaths at high ages at different periods, and the sex of the deceased. TABLE IV.
    AGE.Males.Females.Total.
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    social Position. The subjoined table gives the proportion of deaths in the several social grades ;
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    TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    Years.Births.Birth-rate.*Deaths from all causes.Death-rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
    Corrected.Uncorrected.
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    TABLE II. Deaths in Out-lying Institutions.
    DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums' Board Hospitals,
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    In Table III. the causes of death are classified under six main heads, and the number of deaths from these, as well as the per centage to total deaths, were as follows :—
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    TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    WANDSWORTH.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.| Social Position.
    Population (Census), 189146,720Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 and under 45 years.From 45 and under 65 years.(From 65 and under 75 years75 and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, Ac.Middle and Trading Class Shopmen. Clerks, a c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    Official Population in middle of 188352,422
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
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    K2 3. TABLE of DEATHS during the year 1893, in the Wandsworth Sub-District of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics ; public institutions being shown as separate localities.Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
    At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.12345678910111213141510171819202122
    Influenza.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total.
    (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.)Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)
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    The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above reccds of moitality.
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    K2 1 table 0F POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICK- NESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1893, in the W andsworth S ub -D istrict of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of W andsworth ; classified according to D iseases , A ges, and L ocalities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all AgesRegistered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases or Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1893.12345678910111234567891011
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    TABLE IV. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
    Diseases.1882188318841885188618871888188918901891189218931893
    No. above corrected average.No. below corrected averaee.
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    TABLE V.
    DAge.Sex.Hospital.Situation.Remarks.
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    Number of Cases of Diphtheria Notified with Number of Deaths.
    Under 11 to 5.5 to 19.15 upwards.
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    Number of Cases of Membranous Croup Notified with Number of Deaths.
    Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 upwards.
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    The following are the death-rates per 1000 of population from zymotic diseases, inclusive of deaths in outlying institutions.
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    TABLE VL. NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
    DISEASE.No. cases notified.No. patients removed to Hospital.No. died in Hospital.No. died at Home.Total deaths in Hospital and at Home.
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    TABLE VII MONTHLY NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
    January.February.March.April.May.June.July.August.September.October.November.December.
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    TABLE VIII. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
    Diseases.188318841885188618871S88188918901891189218931893
    No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average.
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    TABLE IX.
    Age.Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE X.
    Social Position.Total Deaths.Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.
    1893.Decennial average.1893.Decennial Average.
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    TABLE XI.
    Males.Females.Total.
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    The total number of samples submitted by the Inspector was 345, while one sample was sent in by a resident of the district under the provisions of the Act; thus making a total of 346 articles as follows:—
    Nature of Article.Number submitted.
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    I.— Dairy Products.
    Articles submitted.Nature and Amount of Impurity.