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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.

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.
I. ZYMOTIC.Small Pox..............................
Scarlet Fever211....1..1......1..1..
Diphtheria66....23..............14
Membranous Croup..............................
Typhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever321........21........12
Continued Fever11..1..................1
Relapsing Fever..............................
Puerperal Fever1..1........1............1
Cholera..............................
Erysipelas3211........11........3
Measles211..1....1............2
Whooping Cough1510578................312
Influenza165111..1..23635344
Diarrhoea & Dysentery342014283........2122624
Hydrophobia..............................
Other Zymotic Diseases..............................
II. Constitutional.Totals of Zymotic Class82473538145..7594851653
Gout and Rheumatism743....1..3111..133
Cancer & other Tumoure24618......179436..613
Other Constitutional Diseases
835212..2....1......8
Tubercular.Phthisis26161022..388211..619
Other Tubercular Diseases
13863511..2149
III. Local.Nervous723933993..3182196. ,1165
Circulatory4626201..1482110194825
Respiratory11761662012831820181811112174
Digestive3319146..115118133621
Urinary1459......162332246
Generative7..7........7..........25
Locomotory11............1..........1
Integumentary..............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth Low Vitality and Congenital Defects68402868..............13657
Old Age542727............1242106731
V. Violence12841..1233239
All other Diseases312..1......2......1..
Totals5873112761504324167610193845835103391