Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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STREATHAM,
Including
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
Population in 1861. 10,082.
Area in statute acres. 3,465.
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 10, and under 60 years
of aee.
At 60, and under 80 year's
of a ere.
80 years and upwards.
Nobility and Gentry.
Professional Class, Merchants,
Bankers, &c.
Middle and Trading Class,
Shopmen. Clerks. &c.
Industrial and Labouring
Classes.
Classes:—
Small Pox. 2 2 1 1 1 11
Measles 2 21 1 2 2
Scarlatina l 1 1 11
Diphtheria 1 l 2 1 211
Croup 2 2 2 2 2
Whooping .. 1 1 .. 1.. 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1
1.Zymotic Cough
Typhus&
Infantile 1 1 21 2 1 1
Fever
Erysipelas. 1 .. 1 1 1..
Carbuncle .. 1 1.. .. .. .. .. 1 ..
Diarrhaœ. 2 2 2.. .. 1.. 1
Total 9 7 16 5 4 11 2 1 2 1 5 10
2. Tubercular 12 8 20 .. .. 3 10 7 3 5 12
3. Brains and Nerves 15 11 26 7 5 1 14 1 4 6 1 5 9 12
4. Of Heart 7 7 14 6 8 2 7 5
5. Of Respiratory Organs 14 17 315 8 1 14 3 1 9 3 1 4 917
6. Of Digestive Organs. 3 1 7 2 1 1 3.. .. 1 3 3
7. Of Urinary Organs 2 1 3 1 1 1.. . .. 1 2..
8. Of Organs of
ration
9. Premature Birth,
Low Vitality,Mai3 1 4 4 .. .. 4 4
formation, &e. ..
10. Of Uncertain Scat .. 3 7 10 .... 1 1 .. 0 3 1 .. 2 5 .3
11. Age 10 4 14 .. .. 6 8 4 3 4 3
12. Violence 1 2 3.. 1.. 1 .. .. 1 1.... 2 1
13. Not Specified 1 2 3 2 1.. 3.. 1 2
TOTAL 80 72 152 19 20 7 54 18 26 39 15 5 22 53 72
The births in the year, as stated in Table II., Appendix, numbered exactly
the same as in 1859, viz., 238. The deaths as I before stated were
152 ; the excess of births over deaths in the year 1860, is accordingly 86.
Table V., Appendix, exhibits the number of cases treated by the Union
Medical Officers of this sub-district, and the number of deaths amongst the
out door poor, which is very instructive as showing the rate of mortality (20)
in the number of cases of sickness, &c., (247) that came under treatment.