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Wandsworth 1894

Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District being for the year ended 25th of March 1895

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Parish of Streatham.

TABLE III.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

STREATHAM.Total Deaths from each Class Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Population Census, 1891Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.Total under 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 to 45 years.From 45 to 65 years.From 65 & under 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen. Clerks, 4c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Estimated Population,1894 49,084
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. ZYMOTIC.Small Pox................................
Scarlet Fever22..1..11................2
Diphtheria835..661....1........35
Membranous Croup2..2112..................2
Typhus Fever..................................
Enteric Fever422......1..21......112
Continued Fever................................
Relapsing Fever................................
Puerperal Fever2..2..........2............2
Cholera................................
Erysipelas2..2............2........11
Measles1394110112................13
Whooping Cough1789610161..............110
Influenza1028112....323..1..27
Diarrhoea & Dysentery12102538....13......210
Hydrophobia................................
Other Zymotic Disease3••31..1••..1..1........3
Totals of Zymotic Class7536391631476..877..111063
II. Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism743......2..1211....25
Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional25817........1i111662..419
Diseases422213....1............4
Titber-cular.(Phthisis..26151131413106112..123
Other Tuberculai Diseases1376347231..........112
III. Local.Nervous5fi2927108184..3101295..942
Circulatory3725121..1..141113732923
Respiratory82473521728..1716141633769
Digestive331617103131..74623..624
Urinary18108......1, ,17721..314
Generative2..2........11........1..1
Locomotory................................
Integumentary................................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth Low Vitality and Congenital Defects40172340..40..............2236
Old Age643123............1143972141
V. Violence18136325244..21....117
All other Diseases211..........1..1......11
Totals49226123110957166191450758484271160394