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Wandsworth 1858
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
- Published
- 1859
- Pages
- 26
- Tables
- 12
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TABLEI.
SEX 1858 Average of last lOyears Excess of Births in 1858 over average Births of Last 10 years Excess of Births over Deaths in 1858, greater than average excess of last l0years Births Deaths Excess of Births over Deaths Births Deaths Excess of Births! over Deaths Males 154 157 Females 199 132 -
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TABLE II. Summary of Deaths during the year ending December classified according to Age, Sex, and Social Posi 31st, 1858, tion.
wandsworth. SEX AGE SOCIAL POSITION Population in 1851, 9,611. Area in Acres, . . 2,478 Males Females Total Under 1 year From 1 to 5 years From 5 to 10 years Under 20 years, including all under 10 years At20, aud under 40 years of age At 40, aud under 60 years of age At 60, and under 80 years of age 80 years and upwards Nobility and Gentry Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c. Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. Industrial ad Labouring Classes Classes of Disease, and other Causes of Death -
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TABLE III. Showing the deaths from epidemic disease during the years 1856-57-58.
Years Small-pox Measles Scarlet Fever Hooping-cough Diarrhœa Typhus Total -
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CLAPHAM. Population in 1851, 16/290 Area in statute Acres, 1,233 SEX AGE SOCIAL POSITION Under 1 year From 1 to 5 years From 5 to 10 years Under 20years, including all under 10 years At 20, and under40 years of age At 40, and under 60 years age_ At 60, and under 80 years of age 80 y ears and upwards Nobility and Gentry rroiessionl Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c. . M iddle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. Industrial aud Labouring 1 Classes DISEASES And other causes of death. Males Females Total -
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BATTERSEA. Popul-itkn in 185!, 10,560 Area in Statute Acres, 2,3-^3 SEX AGE SOCIAL POSlTlOy Under 1 year From 1 to 5 years From 5 to 10 years 1 Under 20years, including all under 10 years At 20, and under40 years of age At 40, aud under60 years of age At GO, and under 80 years of age 80 years and upwards Nobility and Gentry Professional Class, Mer- hants, Bankers, &c. Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Cleks, &c. Industrial and Labouring Classes DISEASES And other causes of death. Males Females Total -
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STREATHAM, including TOOTING & BALHAM Population in 1851, 9,023 Area in Statute Acres, 3,465 SEX AGE SOCIAL POSITION 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 60 and under 80 years of age 80 years and upwards Nobility and Gentry Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers,&c. Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. Industrial and Labouring Classes DISEASES And other causes of death. Males Females Total -
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Localities Small Pox Measles Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria Hooping Cough Diarrhœea and Dysentery Fever, Typhus, and Typhoid Totals -
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TABLE I. Showing the relative number of Deaths in the entire Wandsworth District, in the two years of 1857 and 1858; also the average Mortality of the previous ten years, compared with that of 1858.
Deaths Death rate of 1857, corrected for increase of Population Increase of Deaths in 1858 over 1857 -
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Deaths registered in the ten years, viz.:
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TABLE II.
Sub-districts Males Females Total -
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TABLE III. Meteorological Means for 1858.
Jan., Feb., and March April, May, and June July, Aug., and September Oct., Nov., and December The Year -
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TABLE V. Summary of the Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1858.
Clapham Battersea Wandsworth Putney and Roehampton Streatham, including Tooting & Balham Totals