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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)]
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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 | ||||||
| Total | ||||||||
Causes of Death.
The greatest number of deaths resulted from diseases of the brain and
nervous system, but 4/5ths of these occurred at the County Lunatic
Asylum ; so that 1/5th only can justly enter into an estimate of the causation
of deaths proper to this parish. The next in order of fatality was
the tubercular class, which formed 14 per cent, of all causes of death;
this class includes consumption, which disease alone caused as many
deaths as the whole of the diseases of the respiratory organs collectively,
viz., 12.8 per cent, of the whole, and was the most fatal of any single
disease. The deaths resulting from diseases of the zymotic class (epidemiccontagious)
formed 10.3 per cent, of the whole.
These results are seen on an examination of Table II., which contains
a summary of all the causes of death, in accordance with the classification
of the Registrar General, with the ages at death at eight periods; and
arranged according to sex, age, and social position.
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 | ||||||||||||||||
| Zymotic | 17 | 13 | 30 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 8 | ||
| Tubercular | 20 | 21 | 41 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 1 | .. | 3 | 1 | 8 | 29 | |
| Of Brain, Nerves, &c | 58 | 32 | 90 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 28 | 37 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 76 | |
| Of Heart, &c | 6 | 10 | 16 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 9 | |
| Of Respiratory Organs | 18 | 19 | 37 | 10 | 6 | .. | 16 | 3 | 6 | 12 | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | 32 | |
| Of Digestive Organs | 5 | 9 | 14 | 2 | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 11 | |
| Diseases of uncertain seat, Malformation, Age, SuddeuDeath,&c | 22 | 20 | 42 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 34 | |
| Atroplay | 6 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 8 | |
| Violence, Privation,and Premature Birth | 5 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | .. | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| Total | 157 | 132 | 289 | 42 | 25 | 9 | 89 | 61 | 71 | 56 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 47 | 229 | |