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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

Wandsworth 1893

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

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Table: TABLE VI.

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.
I. Zymotic.Small Pox............................................................
Scarlet Fever295121831415413822.........12224
Diphtheria541414512030243232431............12132
MembranousCroup172.........15710197.....................611
Typhus Fever............................................................
Enteric Fever14323...695...l2253...1...275
Continued Fever1......1......1...l..............................1
Relapsing Fever............................................................
Puerperal Fever7331.........7.........16...............34
Cholera............................................................
Erysipelas102...3...5646.........211.........37
Measles322622...211219192...2...............626
Whooping Cough71161215520353938342..................31358
Influenza63201016314283533327132111971532
Diarrhœa and Dysentery1012363443762428114......2151471875
Hydrophobia............................................................
Other Zymotic Diseases............................................................
Total of Zymotic Class405114508231128203202146116481027182713142294275
II. Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism205...7261010......3...8351...1712
Cancer and other Tumours90288244201971...1...1124716131382643
Other Constitutional Diseases23928...41112103213211......518
TubercularPhthisis152462626549866651043158348221136103
Other Tubercular Diseases76217135304135382083421......41953
III. Local.Nervous2956831721411016418153367103459692722196918???
Circulatory17948224665794851...7133173381620116088
Respiratory488113531172118425223694651811529791602331119315
Digestive157342133762877051928243422751041101
Urinary6922514...283237121414221411792528
Generative18417...6...18.........2151.........1512
Locomotory21...1......11............11............11
Integumentary1...l.........1......1...........................1
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth and Low Vitality199581368357119801981..................2632158
CongenitalDefects16...1......15142141...1..................610
Old Age1141465411294668..................25891582764
V.Violence5913712225411813345101293...41045
VIIlldefined and Not Specified1332314767...1......23...1...111
Totals23.660125658711282012281148631268105100293 4073292431241455831524