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Wandsworth 1862

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

Published
1863
Pages
50
Tables
13

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13 tables in this report

  • Page 9
    CAUSES OF DEATH. 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 1861—13,346. Area in Acres—2,478.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c. in the Sub-DistrictSex.Age.Social Position.
    MalesFemales.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, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
    DISEASES, And other Causes of Death- Diseases Classified.
  • Page 11
    EPIDEMIC DISEASES—PREVALENCE AND FATALITY OF. The following Table exhibits the deaths which resulted from the principal epidemic diseases during the past and six 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 EpidemicsTotal Deaths from all causes.Per centage of deaths from Epi demies to deaths from all causes.
    18569240124124331413.6
    18570120114112924811.2
    185800100417222897.6
    1859274332306031119.2
    1860054I444223087.1
    1861111214833024612.1
    186202825115116227322.7
  • Page 13
    from that disease, with the resulting deaths which have occurred amongst the parochial poor during the same period:—
    SUB-DISTRICT OP WANDSWORTH-
    Area in Acres, 2,478.Population in 1861, 13,346.
    Years.Number of deaths from Small-Pox amongst all classes.Amongst the Parochial Poor.
    Attacks.Deaths.
  • Page 17
    MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.
    Years.1856185718581859186018611862
  • Page 19
    tive beyond any verbal description of the same facts I might attempt to give in this place, and I therefore submit it with confidence as the best indication it is in my power to afford of the improving condition of this sub-district.
    CLAPHAM. Population in 1861—20,890. Area in Acres—1,233.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c. in the entire DistrictSex.Age.SocialPosition.
    MalesFemales.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 10 years.Under 20 years, including all under 10 years.At 20, and under40 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, Ac.Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, Ac.Industrial A Labouring Classes.
    DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.
  • Page 25
    The following table gives the number of deaths that have been registered during the year 1862 from all causes, and amongst all classes, specifying the sex, age, and social position of the deceased:—
    BATTERSEA. Population in 1861—19,852. Area in Statute Acres—2,343. DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.
    Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c. in the Sub-DistrictSex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 10 years.Under20years including all under 10 yearsAt 20, and under40 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 & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, Ac.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
  • Page 29
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    STREATHAM, including TOOTING and BALHAM. Population in 1861—10,052. Area in Statute Acres—3,465.1 Total Deaths from each Class of | Disease, &c. in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.Females.Under 1 year.| From 1 to 5 years.| From 5 to 10 yeara.Under20 years including all under 10 years.At 20, and under40 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 & Labouring Classes.
    DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.
  • Page 35
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    PUTNEY and ROEHAMPTON. Population in 1861—6,481. Area in Statute Acres—2,176.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c. in the Sub-DistrictSix.Age.Social Position
    MalesFemales.1 Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 10 years.Under 20 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 age.| 80 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers,&c.1 Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
    DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.
  • Page 38
    PROGRESS OF MORTALITY. The Table which follows exhibits the mortality within the registration district of Putney during the four quarters of 1862, viewed in connexion with four of the principal meteorological readings of those periods, thus affording the means of judging how far temperature, humidity, amount of rain, &c.,may have influenced the fatality that has attended the different classes of disease at different seasons of the past year. /
    REGISTERED CAUSES OF DEATH.NUMBER OF DEATHS.
    1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.The Year.
  • Page 45
    TABLE I. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the Entire District during 1862, 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 Acrea, 11,695.Total Death from each class of Disease, &c., in the Entire Districtsub-districts.sex.age.social position
    Capham—Population in 1801, 20 890; area in acres. 1,233.Wandsworth Population in 1861, 13\346 ; area in acres, 2.478Batterea - Population in 1861, 19,582 ; area in acres. 2,343.Putney and Roehampton—Population in 1861, 6.,481; area in acres 2.,76Strearham. Tooring, & Balhum- Population 1861. 10,082 : area in acres. 3,465 |Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 10 years.Under 20 years, including all under 10 year-.At 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.Profestional Class, Merchant, Bankers, & cMiddle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerk*, &cIndustrial and Labouring Classes.
    DISEASES. And other Causes of Death.
  • Page 47
    TABLE IV, Showing the total Deaths from the principal Epidemic Diseases registered in each Sub-District, and in the entire District, and the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1855-62.
  • Page 48
    TABLE V. 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, 1862.— Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.
    SUB-DISTRICTS.Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.1—Small Pox.2—Measles.i 3—Scarlatina & Malignant Sore Throat.4—Whooping Cough.5 —Diarrhœa & 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.
  • Page 49
    TABLE VI. Summary of the Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1862.
    Clapham.Battersea.Wandsworth.Putney and Roehampton.Streatham, includingToo-ting & BalhamTotals.