London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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| Social Position. | Total Deaths. | Deaths from Zymotic Diseases. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1882. | Decennial average. | 1882. | Decennial average. | |
| Nobility and Gentry | 3.68 | 3.37 | 0.00 | 0.90 |
| Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers,&c. | 4.78 | 5.04 | 5.55 | 5.80 |
| Middle and Trading Classes, Clerks, &c. | 19.30 | 18.71 | 16.67 | 15.55 |
| Industrial and Labouring Classes | 72.24 | 72.88 | 77.78 | 77.75 |
| 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | |
The proportional amount of mortality from zymotic
diseases borne by the labouring classes is seen to have
been very slightly above the preceding decennial
average, the corresponding amount of the total mortality
borne by them, however, was considerably below
such average. This result corroborates the conclusion
arrived at in previous Reports that there has been a
slight but noticeable diminution in the relative amount
of mortality borne by the labouring classes, and furnishes
a very reliable indication of sanitary improvement
effected in the dwellings of the poor.
Deaths at different ages.—The proportion which
the mortality of infants under one year of age bore to
the total deaths was upwards of one fourth (25.5 per
cent.), the average of the preceding decade having
been 225 per cent. The number of deaths of
children under five years of age was 41 per cent., nearly,
(40.99), the decennial average having been 34.7 per cent.;
and the collective deaths of children and adults under 20
years of age formed upwards of 46 per cent, of the total
mortality, the average having been 41.7 per cent. The
death-rate of infants, calculated from the proportion