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Wandsworth 1860

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

Published
1861
Pages
45
Tables
12

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12 tables in this report

  • Page 4
    The death-rate is found to vary considerably in the several sub-districts; thus, the mean annual death-rate per 1000 during the past ten years was in each sub.district as follows:-
    Battersea.ClaphamWandsworth.Putney.Streatham.
  • Page 11
    The following table contains a summary of all the causes of death, arranged in accordance with the classification of the Registrar-General, shewing the sex, social position, and age at death at 8 periods, and particularising the several diseases of the Zymotic class.
    WANDSWORTH. Population in 1S61, 13,346 Area in Acres, 2,478. Diseases and other Causes of Death. Diseases Classified.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 Year* of age.80 Years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants. Bankers. &c.Middle and Training Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
  • Page 13
    The following table exhibits the deaths which have resulted from the principal epidemic diseases during the past and four preceding years.
    YEARS.Small-pox,Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever, Typhus and Typhoid.Total.
  • Page 17
    The disproportion between the population of Clapham at the beginning of the present century, and that disclosed by the recent census, being so extraordinary, I beg to submit the following table, showing the decennial increase from 1801 to 1861.
    Population.1801.1811.1821.1831.1841.1851.1861.
  • Page 19
    CLAPHAM. Population in 1861, 20,890. Area in 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.Under20 Years including all under 10 Years.1 At 20 and under 40 Years of age.At 40 and under 60 Years of age.At 60 and under 80 Years of age80 Years and upwards.|Nobility and Oentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen. Clerks, &c.Industrial ana Labouring Classes.
  • Page 24
    The subjoined table gives the number of deaths from all causes, and amongst all classes, ages, &c., that have been registered during the year in this sub-district.
    BATTERSEA. Population in 1861, 19,852. Area in statute acres, 2,343. 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 YearsAt 20, and under 40 Years of age.At 40, and under 60 Years of ageAt 60, and under 80 Years of age.| 80 Years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle & Trading Class. Shopmen. Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
  • Page 32
    Rale of Mortality—Causes of Death—Amount and Intensity of Disease— Increase of Population. Amongst the most reliable statistics, of which the Medical Officer of Health can avail himself, are those furnished by the weekly local, returns of the causes of death, from which the following table has been compiled :—
    PUTNEY AND ROEHAHPTON. Population in 1861, 6,481. Area in statute acres, 2,176. 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 year*, including all under 10 yeaTS.At 2o, anu under 40 yeais of ape.At 40. ana under 60 years of age.At 60. anu under 80 years of age.J 80 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
  • Page 35
    The following table will exhibit the yearly relative proportions of deaths amongst the labouring class to the deaths amongst all classes, during the past five years, and compared with what they were in the year 1844* :—
    Deaths in the Five Years, 1856 to 1860, compared with the number in 1814.185618571858185918601844, 16 years prior to the year under review.
  • Page 41
    TABLE I. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the Entire District during 1860, Classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative Numbers in each Sub-District.
    POPULATION of ENTIRE DISTRICT, In 1861, 70,381. Area in Statute Acres, 11,695. DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, 8cc. in the Entire District.Sub-Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Clapham—Population in 1861, 20,890, | area in acres, 1,233.Wands worm—Population in 1861, 13,346, area in acres. 2.478.battersea— Population in 1861, 19,582, area in acres. 2 34.3.Putney—Population in 1861, 6,481. area in acres. 2.176.Streatham, l ooting, & baiham—Population 1861. 10.082. area acre*. 3 465.Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 10 years.Under 20 years, including an 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,
  • Page 43
    TABLE IV. Showing the total Deaths from the principal Epidemic Diseases in each Sub-District, and in the entire District, and the relation which they bore to the total Mortality during the years 1855-60.
    Years.Deaths from Epidemics in each Sub-District.Entire District.
    Clapham.Battersea.Wandsworth.Putney.Streatham.Total Deaths from Epidemics.Total Deaths Registed.Per centage of Deaths from Epidemics to Total Deaths.
  • Page 44 45
    TABLE 7 Cases of Sickness, &c., with the Number of Deaths therefore amongst the Out door Poor Under Treatment of the Union Medical Officers, during the year that ended the 31st of December, 1860, compiled from District Medical Relief Books.
    SUB-DISTRICTS.Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.1—Small Pox.2—Measles.3—Scarlatina and Malignant Sore Throat.4—"Whooping Cough.5—Diarrhoea and Dysentery.6—Cholera. 8.7—Fever.8—Erysipelas.9—Puerperal Fever.10—Lung Diseases, except Phthisis.11—Phthisis.12—Hydrocephalus, Atrophy, Scrofula and Convulsions ol Children.13—Other Diseases, &c.14—Violence, Privation and Premature Birth.Total Deaths in each Sub-District
    Cases.Deaths,Cases.DeathsCases.Death?Cases.DeathCases.deaths.Cases.DeathOases,Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.DeathsCases.Deaths.Cases.DeathsCases.DeathsCases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths
  • Page 46
    TABLE VI. Summary of the Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1860.
    -Clapham.Battersea.Wandsworth.Putney and Roehampton.Streatham, including Toot-ing& BalhamTotals.