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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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Infantile Death-rate.
The deaths of infants under one year of age number
150, or 123 per 1.000 of the registered births, as compared
with 128 deaths or 120 per 1,000 in the previous
year.
The subjoined table gives the proportion of deaths in the several social grades.
| Nobility and Gentry | 58 | 9.9 | per cent. |
| Professional Classes | 35 | 5.9 | ,, |
| Middle and Trading Classes | 103 | 17.6 | " |
| Industrial and Labouring Classes | 391 | 66.6 | |
| Total deaths | 587 | 100.0 |
The proportion of deaths was high, as compared with
last year, amongst the Nobility and Gentry, and also
amongst the Industrial and Labouring Classes, whilst a
marked declination was prevalent amongst both the
Professional and the Middle and Trading Classes.
Zymotic Diseases,
their prevalence
and fatality.
There were 82 deaths in this class,
including 10 from influenza, which is much
lower than in the last two years). They yield a percentage
of 14.3 upon the deaths from all causes.
The seven principal diseases in this class give a
death-rate of 0.6 per 1,000 of the population.
The annexed table contrasts all the deaths resulting
from epidemic diseases with the death-rates therefrom,
as well as those from all diseases during the past ten
years.