[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 10

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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CLAPHAM.
In the year 1856, the first year of the Health Officers' labours, the
deaths from all causes amounted to 286, shewing a favourable state of
the health of this sub-district. In the year 1857, the mortality ranged
higher, as it amounted to 321 deaths, making an increase of 35. In the
year 1858 a large amount of epidemic disease prevailed, and the mortality
was raised to 344, making an increase of 58 deaths over those of 1856,
and of 23 deaths over those of 1857. By the annexed Table is shewn
the number of deaths that occurred in this sub-district during the past
year, classified according to sex, age, and social position, and by it it appears
that 83 persons died from epidemic or preventible diseases; also that 87
infants under one year, 50 from one to five years, and 24 from five to ten
years, died, making a total of 161 deaths, thus constituting a large
infantile mortality, and one considerably above the average.

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CLAPHAM. Population in 1851, 16/290 Area in statute Acres, 1,233	SEX			AGE								SOCIAL POSITION
	SEX			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	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
1. Small Pox	..	1	1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
2.Measles	7	7	14	3	8	2	13	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	13
3. Scarlatina and Malignant Sore Throat	13	12	25	4	9	7	24	1	..	..	..	2	4	4	15
4. Hooping Cough	5	8	13	9	4	..	13	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	11
5. Diarrhœa & Dysentery	6	10	16	11	I	..	12	1	..	3	..	1	2	2	11
6.Cholera	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
7. Fever	3	8	11	1	1	2	9	1	..	1	..	..	3	5	3
8. Erysipelas	2	..	2	1	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	2
9. Puerperal Fever	..	I	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
10. Lung Diseases, ex cept Phthisis	28	33	61	16	5	1	22	5	9	18	7	3	4	7	47
11.Phthisis	13	25	38	1	2	1	7	18	11	2	..	2	5	7	24
12. Hydrocephalus, Atrophy, Scrofula, and Convulsions of	20	16	36	17	12	6	36	..	..	..	..	..	2	7	27
13. Other Diseases	42	66	108	10	6	5	23	10	26	36	13	10	24	13	61
14. Violence, Privation, & Premature Birth	14	4	18	13	2	..	16	..	..	2	..	..	3	3	12
Total	153	191	344	87	50	24	177	38	46	63	20	I8	48	51	227

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By reference to Table IV., Appendix, exhibiting the sickness and mortality
among the pauper population of this sub-district, it will be seen
that 1,492 cases of illness and 60 deaths are tabulated as having occurred
during the past year, giving a rate of mortality to this class of persons of
4.02 per cent, upon the cases of illness.

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