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Wandsworth 1868

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

Published
1869
Pages
60
Tables
15

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15 tables in this report

  • Page 15
    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, showing the sex, social position, and age at death at different periods, and particularizing the several diseases of the Zymotic class.
    WANDSWORTH. Population in 1861—13,346. Area in Acres, 2,478. Diseases and other Causes of Death. Diseases Classified.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease,&c., in the Sub-Disirict.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.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.80 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle &Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks,&c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
  • Page 17
    Epidemic Diseases—Their prevalence and fatality.— The following table shows the deaths which have resulted from the 7 principal Epidemic diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relation which they bore to the deaths from all causes.
    YEARS.Small PoxMeasles. 1Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Cholera.Diarrhœa.Fever— Typhus and Typhoid.Total Deaths from Epidemics.Total Deaths from all causes.Per centage of deaths from Epidemics to deaths from all causes.
  • Page 21
    MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.
  • Page 23
    From the following table (the construction of which from the manuscript weekly returns furnished by the Registrar General to all the Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health, is a work of considerable nicety and labour) may be gathered the number, the sex, the ages, and the social positions of all who have died in the Sub-district within the year under review, and it will also be found to afford a considerable amount of other information interesting to the sanitarian.
    CLAPHAM. Population in 1861—20,894. Area in Acres—1,233.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.SexAgeSocial Position
    MalesFemalesUnder 1 yearFrom 1 to 5 yearsFrom 5 to 10 yearsUnder 20 years, including all underl0 yearsAt 20, and under 40 years of ageAt 40 and under 60 years of ageAt 60 and under 80 years of age80 years and upwardsNobility and GentryProfessional Class, Merchants, Hankers, &c.Middle & Trading class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Laboring Classes
    DISEASES And other Causes of Death
  • Page 25
    I here append a table, showing, as I have before done, the exact number of deaths due to the seven principal epidemics occurring in the past and ten preceding years.
    Years.18581859186018611802186318641865186618671868
  • Page 29
    STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    BATTERSEA. Population in 1861—19,852. Area in Statute Acres—2,343Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.Females.Under I 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 GentryProfessional Class, Merchants, Bankers, Ac.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    DISEASES. And other Causes of Death.
  • Page 35
    STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    STREATHAM. including TOOTING & BALHAM. Population in 1861—10,082. Area in Statute Acres—3,465Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.SexAgeSocial Position
    Males.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 50 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 Laboring Classes.
    DISEASES, And other Causes of Death
  • Page 41
    The mortality table of the present report will, in many other respects, bear a very favourable comparison with that of 1867. It will be seen, for example, that not only has there been a rather large decrease in the number of deaths due to Zymotic diseases, but that the principal non-epidemic maladies (the tubercular excepted) resulted in fewer deaths than has been noted in the reports of several years past.
    PUTNEY and ROEHAMPTON. Population in 1861—6.481. Area in Statute Acres—2,176.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &e., in the Sub-DistrictSexAgeSocial Position
    MalesFemalesUnder 1 yearj From 1 to 5 yearsFrom 5 to 10 yearsUnder 20 years, including all under 10 yearsAt 20, and under 40 years of ageAt 40, and under 60 years of ageAt 60, and under 80 years of age80 years and upwardsNobility and GentryProfessional Class, Merchants, Hankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes
    DISEASES, And other causes of Death.
  • Page 43
    Zymotic Diseases.—The relative proportion and percentage of deaths due to Zymotic diseases to deaths from all causes that have occurred iu the past and ten previous years, will be better understood by a comparison of the figures embodied in the following table:
    YEARS.Number of Deaths from all Causes.No. of Deaths from Seven of the principal Epidemic Diseases.Percentage of Deaths from seven principal Epidemics to Deaths from all causes.
  • Page 51
    TABLE I. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the Entire District during 1868. 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.DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Entire District.Sub-Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position
    Claphara—population in 1861,20,890,area in acres. 1,233.Wands worth—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, looting,ana isainam—i opulation 1861, 10,082, area in acres, 3,465. 1Stales.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.80 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &cMiddle and Trading Class, Shopmen.| Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
  • Page 52
    TABLE II. Births registered during the year 1868.
    SUB-DISTRICTS.Males.Females.Total.
  • Page 52
    TABLE III. Meteorological Elements for 1868, from Observations taken at Greenwich.
    MEANSJan., Feb., and March.April, May, and June.July, Aug., and September.Oct., Nov., and December.The Year.
  • Page 53
    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 years1858-68.
    YearDeaths from the seven principal Epidemics in each Sub-District.Entire District.
    Clapham.Battersea.Wandsworth.Putney.Streatham.Total Deaths from the Seven Epidemics.Total Deaths Registered from all causesPer centage of Deaths from the Seven Epidemics to Total Deaths.
  • Page 54
    TABLE V. Cases of Sickness amongst the out-door Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1868. 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.0—Cholera.7—Fever.8—Erysipelas9—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
    1 Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.DeathsCases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths
  • Page 55
    TABLE VI. summary of the Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1868.
    Clapham.Battersea.Wandsworth.Putney and Roehampton.Streatham, including Tooting and Balham.Totals.