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Wandsworth 1861

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

Published
1862
Pages
40
Tables
11

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11 tables in this report

  • Page 9
    The following Table contains a summary of all the causes of death, arranged in accordance with the classification of the RegistrarGeneral, shewing the sex, social position, and age at death at eight periods, and particularising the several diseases of the zymotic class.
    WANDSWORTH.Sex.Age.Social Position .
  • Page 11
    The following Table exhibits the deaths which resulted from the principal epidemic diseases during the past and 5 preceding years, and the relation which they bore to the deaths from all causes.
    YEARS.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Diarrhœa.Fever. Typhus and Typhoid.Total Deaths from Epidemics.Total Deaths from all causes.Per centage of deaths fromEpidemics to deaths from all causes
  • Page 14
    MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.
    YEARS.185618571858185918601861
  • Page 15
    The following table gives the number of deaths registered during 1861 from all causes, and amongst all classes, together with the sex, and ages at death at eight different periods.
    CLAPHAM.Sex.Age.Social Position.
  • Page 20
    BATTERSEASex.Age.Social Position.
    Population in 1861, 19,852. Area in statute acres, 2,343. Males. Females. Totel.Under 1 Year.From 1 to 5 Years.From 5 to 10 Years.Under 20 Years, including all under 20 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 & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Class.
    DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.
  • Page 28
    The subjoined table gives the number of deaths registered during 1861 from all causes and amongst all classes, with the sex and ages at death, as in former reports—an arrangement than which, it is believed, no better could be adopted to afford facilities for comparison with similar statistics of previous years:—
    PUTNEY and ROEHAMPTON. Population In 186l, 6,481. Area in statute acres, 2,170.Sex.AgeSocial 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.Profeessional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.
  • Page 35
    Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the Entire District during 1861, 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.Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., in the Entire District.Sub-Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Clapham—Population in 1861, 20,890, area in acres, 1,233.Wandsworth—Population in 1861, 13,346, area in acres, 2,478.Battersea—Population in 1861, 19,582, area in acres, 2,343.Putney—Population in 1861, 6,481, area in acres, 2,176.Streatham, Tooting, &Balham—Popu-lation 1861, 10,082, area acres, 3,465.'Males.J Females.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.60 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes..
    DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.
    Classes:—Small Pox
  • Page 36
    Births during the year ending 31st December, 1861.
    SUB-DISTRICT.Males.Females.Total.
  • Page 36
    Meteorological Means for 1861, from Observations taken at Greenwich.
    Jan., Feb., and March.April, May, and June.July, Aug., and September.Oct., Nov., and December.The Year.
  • Page 38
    Cases of Sickness amongst the Out-door Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, and the Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., during the Year that ended 31st December, 1861. Compiled from the 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.7—Fever.8—Erysipelas.9—Puerperal Fever.10—Lung Diseases, except Phthisis.11—Phthisis.12—Hydrocephalus, Atrophy, Scrofula, and Convulsions of Children.13—Other Diseases.14—Violence, Privation, and Premature Birth:Total Deaths in each Sub-District.
    Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
  • Page 39
    Summary of the Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1861.
    Clapham.Battersea.WandsworthPutney and Roehampton.Streatham, includingTooting& BalhamTotals.