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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)]

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APPENDIX
of
STATISTICAL TABLES.

Table: 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.

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
Total18041807114411431258115
Deaths registered in the ten years, viz.:
1846184718481849185018511852185318541855
939873999152696310161114114817321144
Average of the above ten years1145
Average of the above ten years, raised for increase of Population1259
Deaths in 18561143
Decrease of Deaths in favour of 1856116

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TABLE II.
Showing the Deaths from six of the principal Zymotic Diseases in each of the Sub-
districts during the year 1856.
Small
Pox.
Measles.
Scarlatina.
Hooping
Cough,
Diarrhoea.
Typhus.
Total.
Clapham
1
15
8
4
5
6
39
Battersea
1
9
7
8
12
8
45
Wandsworth
9
3
3
13
4
12
44
Putney and Roehampton
• •
• •
• •
7
3
3
13
Streatham, including Tooting,
and Balham
2
• •
1
4
4
4
15
Total
13
27
19
36
28
33
156