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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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TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

TOOTING.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c , in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position
Population 5784 (Census) 1891,Males.Females.Under 1 Year.From 1 to 5 Years.From 5 to 15 Years.From 15 to 25 Years.From 25 and under 45 YearsFrom 45 and under 65 YearsFrom 65 and under 75 years75 Years and Upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers Ac.Middle and Trading Class Shopmen, Clerks, Ac.Industrial A Labouring Classes.
Estimated Population in middle of 1894 5676
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.Small Pox..............................
Scarlet Fever52*2923..2722111........250
Diphtheria57†243333420..............255
Membranous Croup2..2..2..................2
Tyhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever1..1..........1..........1
Continued Fever..............................
Relapsing Fever..............................
Puerperal Fever..............................
Cholera..............................
Erysipelas..............................
Measles95418..................9
Whooping Cough32112..................3
Influenza33......11..1..........3
Diarrhœ & Dysentery11..1....................1
Hydrophobia..............................
Other Zymotic Diseases33......11..1..........3
Totals of Zymotic Class131676467344314........4127
II.Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism1..1............1........1
Cancer & other Tumours633........222........4
Other Constitutional Diseases1..11....................1
Tubercular.PhthisisOther Tubercular642......231........15
Diseases42222..................4
III. Local.Nervous6511..1..1....3....24
Circulatory1257....1..54..2....39
Inspiratory135834221....1......13
Digestive8261..1..2....4....35
Urinary22..........2..........11
Generative..............................
Locomotary1..1..1..................1
Integumentary..............................
iv. Developmental.Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects )8358..................17
Old Age211..............21....1
V. Violence3213....................3
Other Diseases..............................
Totals204101103258049717113123..15186

*Of the 52 deaths from Scarlet Fever, 50 were of non-parishioners in the Asylums' Board Hospitals.
+ „ 57 „ „ Diphtheria, 52 „ „ „ „ „