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Wandsworth 1856

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

Published
1857
Pages
52
Tables
16

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16 tables in this report

  • Page 13
    Relation of Deaths from all Causes, and from Epidemic Diseases to Social Position.
    Classes of Persons in which the Deaths occurred. *GentryProfessionalTradingLabouringTotal Deaths
  • Page 14
    TABLE I. Table shewing the Number of Deaths from Epidemic Diseases, during the year 1856, with the Sanitary conditions of the houses in which they occured. Nature of , Locality Very badly drained
    DISEASES.Diarrhœa & DysenteryErysipelasFeverHooping CoughMeaslesPuerperal FeverScarlet FeverSmall PoxTotals
  • Page 15
    Number of houses examined, with a summary of their condition found on examination.
  • Page 16
    No. of Houses in which the following sanitary improvements were made during the year 1856,
  • Page 18
    TABLE III. Table shewing the Impurity and Hardness of samples of the several kinds of Water in general use in the Parish of Wandsworth.
    Source of Supply.Date.Solid Constituents in grains per Imperial Gallon.Hardnessin degrees,each degree equal to 1 grain of Chalk per gal.Remarks,
    Organic matter.Inorganic matter.Total impurity.Temporary.Per- manent.Total.
  • Page 28
    TABLE I.
    Diseases.Males.Females.Total.
  • Page 28
    TABLE II.
    Under 1 YearFrom 1 to 5 YearsFrom 5 to 10 YearsAge.Social Position.
    Under 20 Years, but over 10 YearsAt 20, and under 40 Years of AgeAt 40, and under 60 Years of AgeAt 60, and under 80 Years of Age80 Years and upwardsNobility and GentryProfessional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes
  • Page 28
    TABLE III. Births during the Year ending December 31, 1856.
    Sub-DistrictsMalesFemalesTotal
  • Page 30
    Sanitary Inspections, &c. in the undermentioned Sub-Districts during the year 1856.
  • Page 32
    The subjoined table may not be without interest, as showing the excess of deaths over births at three of the periods to which I have referred:—
    Decennial periods.Average of Baptisms.Average of Burials.
  • Page 36
    Like the plague of the 17th century, the cholera of the present was happily (more especially in 1848-9), much less fatal in Putney than it was in any other sub-district within the Union. Nor is this difference to be entirely accounted for by the difference in the amount of population, as will be readily seen by a reference to the subjoined table.
    Sub-districts.Population, 1841.Deaths from Cholera in 60 Weeks, ending Nov. 24th. 1849.Ratio of Deaths in 10,000 Inhabitants.
  • Page 39
    Sanitary Inspections and Improvements effected during the year 1856.
    Number of HousesNumber of Notices served.Cesspools emptied.Cesspools filled up.Cesspools connejtedClosets panned andWater supplied.Dustbin* provided.
    1st.2nd..
  • Page 43
    Table exhibiting the Degrees or Grains per Gallon of Impurity of certain Metropolitan Well Waters—Distilled water being taken as 0.
    Date.Situation of Wells.Total Impurity in Degrees or Total Residue in Grains.Organic Matter and Nitric Acid.
  • Page 44
    Comparative Mortality from Six of the principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class, in the well drained, partially drained, and undrained localities of Putney, during 1856.
    Localities.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Hooping Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever, Typhus, and Typhoid,Totals.
  • Page 47
    TABLE I. Showing the Number of Births and Deaths in the entire Wandsworth District, in the corresponding quarters of the two years 1855 and 1856: also the average mortality of the previous ten years, compared with that of 1856.
    Births.Deaths.Death rate of 1855. Raised for increase of Population.Decrease of Deaths in 1856, compared with 1855.
    1855185618551856
    1st Quarter ending last day of March498497384289
    2nd Quarter ending last day of June456439291296
    3rd Quarter ending last day of Sept424445223246
    4th Quarter ending last day of Dec426426246312
  • Page 48
    TABLE 3. Cases of Sickness amongst the Poor under the Treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each Class of Disease, during the year ending December 31st, 1856. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.
    Sub-Districts.Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.1 Small Pox.2 Measles.3 Scarlatina and Malignant Sore Throat.4 Hooping Cough,5 Diarrhœa and Dysentery.6 Cholera.7 Fever.8 Erysipelas.9 Puerperal Fever.10 Lung Diseases except Phthisis.11 Phthisis.12 Hydrocephalus, Atrophy, Scrofula and Convulsions of Children.13 Other Diseases.14 Violence, Privation, and Premature Birth.Total Deaths in each Sub-District.
    Cases,Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.