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CLAPHAM.
In the years 1856, 1857, and 1858, the numbers of registered
deaths in this sub-district were respectively 286, 321, and 344, giving an
average of 317. As the deaths in 1859 amounted to 328, it follows that an
excess of 11 was registered over the average of those years; but as the
deaths in the past year (1859) occurred in an increased population, they
should be compared with the average raised proportionally to such increase.
By this comparison the mortality of 1859 is found to be almost identical with
that average.
CLAPHAM.
Population in 1851, l6,290
Are* in statute Acres, 1,233
DISEASES
And other causes of death.
SEX
AGE
SOCIAL POSITION
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 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
1. Small Pox
2. Measles
3. Scarlatina, and
lignant Sore Throat
4. Hooping Cough
5. Diarrhoea & Dysentery .
6. Cholera
7. Fever
8. Erysipelas
9. Puerperal Fever
10. Lung Diseases,
cept Phthisis
11. Phthisis
12. Hydrocephalus,
Atrophy, Scrofula,
and Convulsions of
Children
13. Other Diseases
14. Violence, Privation,
and Premature Birth
Total
2
2
14
2
4
..
7
2
..
28
27
27
37
14
160
7
..
12
4
7
..
5
..
1
29
18
13
51
15
162
9
2
26
6
11
..
12
2
1
57
45
40
58
29
328
2
1
2
2
5
..
1
2
..
8
8
34
1
19
75
3
1
15
4
1
..
4
7
12
4
3
54
1
..
5
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
..
4
1
..
12
7
2
24
6
6
..
6
2
..
17
8
40
8
23
149
1
..
1
..
..
..
1
..
..
3
13
..
9
1
20
1
..
1
..
..
..
12
13
..
23
1
54
..
..
..
4
..
3
..
..
14
4
..
38
3
66
..
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
10
..
..
10
22
..
..
..
1
..
..
2
2
2
..
8
..
15
..
..
2
..
..
..
..
1
5
4
3
10
1
26
1
1
6
1
3
..
2
1
..
14
7
11
31
2
80
8
1
18
4
8
..
8
1
36
32
26
39
26
207
The annexed table exhibits the number of deaths from all causes in 1859,
classified, as usual, under sex, age, and social position, from which it will
appear that epidemic or zymotic diseases, in six of their principal forms,
carried off one-fifth of the whole number of persons who died in this parish,
or no less than 66.
This table further shows, that 75 infants under one year, 54 from one to
five years, and 12 from five to ten years, died during the year. It cannot
be denied that a total of 141 deaths is a large infantile mortality, though it
is gratifying to bo able to state that the death-rate under one year is considerably
below that of 1858, as is also that between 5 and 10 years, making
a total difference in favour of the past year of 20 lives, between the period of
birth and the age of 10.