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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)]
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RATE OF MORTALITY—CAUSES OF DISEASE AND DEATH—PREVALENCE
AND FATALITY OF ZYMOTIC DISEASES—INFANT
MORTALITY, &c.
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. | 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. | Profeessional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c. | Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. | Industrial and Labouring Classes. | ||
| DISEASES, And other Causes of Death. | ||||||||||||||||
| Classes, &c:- | ||||||||||||||||
| 1. Zymotic | Measles | -_ | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Scarlatina | 8 | 6 | 15 | - | 10 | 4 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 12 | |
| Croup | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Whooping Cough | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Typhus and InfantileFever | - | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Metria, | — | 1 | 1 | - | — | — | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Diarrhœa | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 11 | 13 | 24 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 22 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | - | 6 | 18 | |
| 2. Tubercular | 11 | 7 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 12 | |
| 3. Of Brain and Nerves | 15 | 11 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | |
| 4. Of Heart | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | |
| 5. Of Respiratory Organ | 7 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 3 | — | 7 | — | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | |
| 0. Of Digestive Organs | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | — | — | — | 1 | - | 2 | - | -_ | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 7. Of Urinary Organs | 4 | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | |
| 8. Of Organs of Generation | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | |
| 8. Of Joints, Bones, &c | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | |
| 10. Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c. | 5 | 6 | 11 | 11 | - | - | 11 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |
| 11. Of Uncertain Seat | 2 | 6 | 8 | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | I | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | |
| 12. Age | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| 13. Violence | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | ||
| U. Not Specified | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Total | 61 | 63 | 124 | 20 | 24 | 9 | 67 | 12 | 19 | 23 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 38 | 67 | |
The total number of deaths, as exhibited in the above table, is
124, nearly equally divided as to sex, but presenting a most