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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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9
CAUSES OF DEATH.

Table: 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.

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 .
Population in 1861, 13,346. Area in Acres, 2,478.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, Mer- chants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Training Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Diseases and other Causes of Death. Diseases Classified.
Classes:—Small-Pox...11...1...1.....................1
Measles...11...1...1........................
Scarlatina5712...631011............111
Diphtheria1...1......11.....................1
1.ZymoticWhooping Cough2244......4.....................4
Diarrhœa & Dysentery961565112...12.........213
Croup12312...3............1...11
Fever213...1...21..................3
Erysipelas1...11......1.....................1
Total2120411216535222...1...436
2. Tubercular29245385...2016125...21347
3. Of Brain, Nerves, &c.322052103114131311112544
4. Of the Heart, &c.235...............5......1......4
5. Of Respiratory Organs14132745...9648...1...422
6. Of Digestive Organs88163...2535212...410
7. Of the Kidneys, &c..............................................
8. Of the Uterus...33............21...............3
9. Of Uncertain Seat215172...13...67131112
Low Vitality, Malformation, &c.951414......14..................212
11. Age61016..................793...310
12. Violence2...2............11...............2
Total126121246532991004143411213426203

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In consequence of the great diminution in the number of deaths
in the Asylum last year from the cause above mentioned, diseases
of the brain and nervous system do not, as usual, take the highest
place in the causation of mortality. The tubercular class (which
includes consumption, scrofula, and hydrocephalus) exceeds them
by one death. These classes formed each about 21 per cent. of
all deaths. Of the former, one-half only, or ten per cent. of all