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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.

WANDSWORTH.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Population (Census), 189146,720Males.Females.Under 1 year. From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 and under 45 years.From 45 and under 65 years.From 65 and under 75 years75 and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, Ac.Middle and Trading Class. Shopmen, Clerks, Ac.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Estimated Population in middle of 189455,175
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.Small Pox..............................
Scarlet Fever11......1................1
Diphtheria844..26................8
Membranous Croup93636................18
Typhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever532..11..3........1..4
Continued Fever..............................
Relapsing Fever..............................
Puerperal Fever6..6......33............6
Cholera..............................
Erysipelas64231......1..1..1..5
Measles37162182432........1..432
Whooping Cough17611512................16
Influenza136721....2332..i70
Diarrhoea & Dysentery24159194........1......123
Hydrophobia..............................
Other Zymotic Diseases..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class12658G8405111584431314108
II. ConstitutionalGout and Rheumatism1073....112222..244
Cancer & other Tumours321220........61961121217
Other Constitutional Diseases0818......1..........18
Tubercular.Phthisis..73492412211381711262342
Other Tubercular Diseases2413111453..2..........429
III Local.Nervous11153531566224321610108316
Circulatory5226261..23161413329in31
Respiratory12866623529431417179462494
Digestive51262624412893..321333
Urinary241113....2231331..3136
Generative9,,9......44..1........9
Locomotary..............................
Integumentary..............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth and Low Vitality49282149................21136
Congenital Defects9459..................2..
Old Age381523..........282841924
V. Violence2318514433611..1319
VI. Ill-defined & not SpecifiedIll-defined................................
(Not specified..............................
Totals768398370197101363612913575592945174529