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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1857

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

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Table: TABLE II.Summary of Deaths in each Sub-Di»trict during the Quarter ending 26th September, 1857.Classified according to Age, Sex, and Social Position.

TABLE II.

Summary of Deaths in each Sub-Di»trict during the Quarter ending 26th September, 1857.

Classified according to Age, Sex, and Social Position.

DISEASES.SUB-districtsSex.Age.Social Position
Clapham—Population 16,290 Area in Acres 1233.Wands worth—Population 9,611 Area in Acres 2478.Battersea—Population 10,560 Area in Acres 2343,Putney—Population 5,280 Area in Acres 2175.Streatham, including Tooting and Balham—Population 9,023 Area in Acres 3,466.MalesFemalesTotalUnder 1 Year.From 1 to 6 Year».From 5 to 10 Years.Under 20 Years, including all under 10 Years.At 20, and under 40 Years ofAge.At 40, and under 60 Years of Ago.At 60, and under 80 Years of Age.80 Years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants Bankers, &cMiddle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
1.Small Pox.........................................................
2.Measles........................................................
3.Scarlatina and Ma-) lignant Sole Throat J2.........12131113..................21
4.Hooping Cough6.........11671517...............124
5.Diarrhoea & Dysentery231019252435593410...45227313847
6Cholera......21...213123..................12
7.Fever35114610214321.........28
8.Erysipelas...111...2131...12......1............3
9.Puerperal Fever............................................................
10.Lung Diseases, ex-1525511171844...942211...314
11.Phthisis961153171734...16159417917
(1).Hydrocephalus, Artrophy Scrofula and the Convul83133118102823528..................721
3.Other diseases253224111494796823181324329252663
14.Violence, Privation,) & Premature Birth J139421361971213132......2116
Totals,8262852526143137280803391383842491351861196