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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

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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.
I. Zymotic Diseases.Small Pox..............................
Scarlet Fever11......1............1....
Diphtheria1477148..1..........311
Membranous Croup..............................
Typhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever211......1..1........2..
Continued Fever..............................
Relapsing Fever..............................
Puerperal Fever3..3........3..........21
Cholera..............................
Erysipelas..............................
Measles2....11....................
Whooping Cough125766..............237
Influenza10..61111..132....46
Diarrhœa & Dysentery65151..................6
Hydrophobia..............................
Other Zymotic Diseases..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class50232714131024232..31433
II. Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism..............................
Cancer & other Tumours8..8..........62....161
Other Constitutional Diseases2..21......1..........11
Tubercular.Phthisis261881524662..11816
Other Tubercular Diseases72522..12..........25
III. Local.Nervous31181367....2214....7915
Circulatory221210....224671..3163
Respiratory5325288921612123..51236
Digestive2113893..22..6....11010
Urinary523........131....122
Generative1..1........1............1
Locomotory..............................
Integumentary11....1..................1
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth and137613..................310
Low Vitality
Congenital Defects11..1....................1
Old Age633............24....24
V. Violence761......1123......25
VI.Illdefined&Illdtfincd Not Specified22..2....................2
Not Specified
Totals256133123574016133039511012287146