Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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.
STREATHAM. (including Balham.) | Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District. | Sex, | Age. | Social Position. | ||||||||||||||
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Population 1 Census, 1891 | 42,958 | Males. | 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 1893 | 47,042 | |||||||||||||||||
CAUSES OF DEATH. | ||||||||||||||||||
I. ZYMOTIC. | Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Scarlet Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | |||
Diphtheria | 6 | 6 | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | |||
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Enteric Fever | 3 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | |||
Continued Fever | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Puerperal Fever | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Erysipelas | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | |||
Measles | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |||
Whooping Cough | 15 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 12 | |||
Influenza | 16 | 5 | 11 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |||
Diarrhoea & Dysentery | 34 | 20 | 14 | 28 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 24 | |||
Hydrophobia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Other Zymotic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
II. Constitutional. | Totals of Zymotic Class | 82 | 47 | 35 | 38 | 14 | 5 | .. | 7 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 53 | ||
Gout and Rheumatism | 7 | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||
Cancer & other Tumoure | 24 | 6 | 18 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 6 | .. | 6 | 13 | |||
Other Constitutional Diseases | ||||||||||||||||||
8 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 8 | ||||
Tubercular. | Phthisis | 26 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 2 | .. | 3 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 6 | 19 | ||
Other Tubercular Diseases | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | |||||||
III. Local. | Nervous | 72 | 39 | 33 | 9 | 9 | 3 | .. | 3 | 18 | 21 | 9 | 6 | . , | 11 | 65 | ||
Circulatory | 46 | 26 | 20 | 1 | .. | 1 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 25 | |||
Respiratory | 117 | 61 | 66 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 18 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 21 | 74 | |||
Digestive | 33 | 19 | 14 | 6 | .. | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 21 | |||
Urinary | 14 | 5 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||
Generative | 7 | .. | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 5 | |||
Locomotory | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||
Integumentary | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
IV. Developmental. | Premature Birth Low Vitality and Congenital Defects | 68 | 40 | 28 | 68 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 6 | 57 | ||
Old Age | 54 | 27 | 27 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 42 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 31 | |||
V. Violence | 12 | 8 | 4 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | ||||||
All other Diseases | 3 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | ||||
Totals | 587 | 311 | 276 | 150 | 43 | 24 | 16 | 76 | 101 | 93 | 84 | 58 | 35 | 103 | 391 |