Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1893 page 118

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 II. gives particulars of the number, causes of death, ages, and social position of those who have died:—TABLE II.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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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 45,537			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.	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.				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.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Scarlet Fever		5	3	2	..	3	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	1	3
	Diphtheria		14	6	8	2	6	5	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	6	7
	Membranous Croup		2	1	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
	Typhus Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever		3	1	2	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	2	1
	Continued Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Relapsing Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Puerperal Fever		3	..	3	..	..	..	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	1	2
	Cholera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Erysipelas		2	1	1	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
	Measles		26	9	17	8	15	2	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	5	21
	Whooping Cough		16	7	9	6	9	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	14
	Influenza		20	11	9	..	1	1	1	2	5	9	1	1	3	6	11
	Diarrhœa & Dysentiry		23	11	12	15	3	..	..	1	1	3	..	1	3	3	10
	Hydrophobia		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Other Zymotic Diseases		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class			114	60	64	32	39	11	3	9	6	12	2	2	8	27	77
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism		5	2	3	..	..	2	..	2	..	1	..	..	..	2	3
	Cancer &otherTumour Other Constitutional		28	6	22	..	..	..	..	2	17	4	5	6	1	8	14
	Diseases		9	6	3	6	1	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	2	7
	Tubercular.	Phthisis	46	21	26	1	2	2	14	15	9	3	..	..	3	..	..
	Tubercular.	Other Tubercular Diseases	21	11	10	9	6	4	..	2	..	..	..	..	1	4	16
III. Local.	Nervous		68	34	34	19	8	1	2	4	12	15	7	6	7	16	40
	Circulatory		48	24	24	..	..	1	5	6	23	6	7	4	3	15	26
	Respiratory		113	58	55	20	15	..	3	5	26	24	18	8	5	28	72
	Digestive		34	17	17	11	3	..	1	6	9	3	1	..	4	6	24
	Urinary		22	11	11	..	1	..	1	5	7	5	3	3	3	9	7
	Generative		4	..	4	..	..	..	1	2	1	..	..	..	1	1	2
	Locomotory		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Integumentary		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality		58	30	28	57	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	12	45
	Congenital Defects		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Old Age		14	3	11	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	11	2	2	5	5
V. Violence			13	9	4	3	1	..	..	2	4	1	2	..	3	2	8
VI. Illdefined & Not Specified		Illdefined	2	1	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
VI. Illdefined & Not Specified		Not Specified	1	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Total			601	284	317	161	77	23	30	61	115	78	56	29	42	151	379

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Wandsworth 1893

Table: Table II. gives particulars of the number, causes of death, ages, and social position of those who have died:—TABLE II.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.