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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-District during the Quarter, ending 26th December, 1857.Classified according to Age, Sex, and Social Position.

TABLE II.

Summary of Deaths in each Sub-District during the Quarter, ending 26th December, 1857.

Classified according to Age, Sex, and Social Position.

DISEASES.Sub-Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position.
(Clapham—Population 16,290 Area in Acres 1233.Wandsworth—Population 8611 Area in Acres 2478..battersea—Population 10,560 Area in Acres 2343.Putney—Population 5280 Area in Acres 2176.Streatham, including Tooting and Balham—Population 9,023. Area in Acres, 3466.'Males.Females.Total.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 10 years.Under 20 Years, including all under 10 years.At 20, and under 40 years of age.At 40 and under 60 years of age.At bO and under 80 years of age80 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.1 Alturtle and 1 rading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and labouring Classes.
1. Small Fox............................................................
2. Measles............................................................
3. Scarlatina and Ma-lignant Sore Throat1...1...1213...123..................21
4. Hooping Cough3...2......11514...5..................23
5. Diarrhoea & Dysentry1341...5493216..................45
6. Cholera,............................................................
7. Fever21112847......14...2............34
8 Erysipelas............................................................
9. Puerperal Fever.........1......11............1..................1
10. Lung Diseases, ex-255141925295415812611197511236
11. Phthisis11111222162238...2172182......21719
12. Hydrocephalus, Atrophy,) Scrofula, And the Convul-977121926139226..................224
13. Other Diseases243839811645612095323163333158102379
14. Violence, Privation, & Premature Birth8343115419111113312......1612
Totals.846884182815312928252321211342554824131471184