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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)]

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APPENDIX OF STATISTICAL TABLES.

Table: 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.

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.
Classes:—
. ZymoticSmall Pox..2......1...1111......11..................2
Measles359815121817724335.... . ..........1925
Scarlatina66454223313511385642.........322635
Diphtheria2772111612152121026...1.........1719
Quinsy11............1...............1..................1
Croup203313...1119119...20...............1613
Whooping Cough77252028...431463438577...............2758
Typhus and Infantile Fever662673021313537733151161152535
Ery sipelas12655...15721...3243......237
Metria, Child birt2141133......21............165.........2811
Carbuncle.............................................................
Influenza1..................1..................1...............
Diarrhœa & Dysenter1302722655116268991711181362...34582
Cholera31.........2111...2......1.........3...
Totals of Zymotic Class461124682251430205256161157313793824173420149288
2. Tubercular38248622282420210172123549211975915...214155211
3. Of Brain and Nerve339459316016251831569262131794350607423106206
4. Of Heart1243020469196559633222532396594961
5. Of Respiratory Or gans285524314521241561299268617011385610512103165
6. Of Digestive Or gans891624378449402132271123262642752
7. Of Urinary Organs25399221411......116117...111012
8. Of Organs of Gene ration1741102...314............2114......3311
9. Of Joints, Bones, &e103142...73...123241............10
10. Of Skin72...5......433......42...1.........25
11. Premature Birth Low Vitality, Maformation, &c.154532361981015314572154............2114299
12. Of Uncertain Seat64219314824404217721245172827
13. Age1073818401103869..................436481031 758 43
14. Violence52113286435173932213782...2
15. Not Specified5229...17...6242817322461111......41830
Totals216845039410461181601118105066736975120326329131299381207311279