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

Page 7

Birth-rates, Death-rates, and rates of Naiurat-tncreas in the entire district during the ten gears 1873—82, compared with those of the year 1883.

Years.	Births.	Birth-rate per 1000.	Deaths.	Death-rate per 1000.	Natural Increase.	Rate of Notural Increase per 1000.

Page 8

The following Table shews the death-rates of the several sub-districts in relation to the amount and density of population and the proportional number of the industrial classes which each sub-district possesses:—

SUBDISTKICTS	Population in the middle of 1883.	Per-centag-e of Total Population	Deaths	Death-rate per 1000	Death-rate per 1000 corrected for deaths in Public Institutions.	Density of Population—No. of Persons to Acre.	Relative Number percent, of Industrial and Other Clauses, Census, 1881.
SUBDISTKICTS	Population in the middle of 1883.	Per-centag-e of Total Population	Deaths	Death-rate per 1000		Density of Population—No. of Persons to Acre.	Industrial Classes	Other Classes

Page 13

Return made February 7th, 1884, by the Vaccination Officers, respecting the Vaccination of children whose births were registered in the entire district from 1st January to December 31st, 1882 inclusive ;—

SUB-DISTRTCTS.	Number of Birtlis Returned from 1st January to 31st December, 1882.	Successfully Vaccinated.	Insusceptible of Vaccination.	Had Small Pox.	Dead, Unvaccinated.	Postponed by Medical Certificate.	Removed to Dis-\| tricts, Vaccination 1 Officer of which has 1 been duly apprised.	Removed to places unknown, or which cannot he reached; and cases not having' been found.

Page 14

The increase or decrease in the number of deaths that occurred in each class of disease in relation to its decennial average corrected for increase of population is compared in the following table;—

CLASSES OF DISEASE, &c.		Number of deaths in 1883.	Average Annual number of deaths in the ten years 1873-82.	{Same averages corrected for Increaso of population.	Number of deaths 1883 above corrected average.	Number of deaths 1883 below corrected average.

Page 15

All the deaths in the past and ten preceding years are classified according to age for comparison with each other in the following table:—

YEARS.	AGE.
YEARS.	Under 1 yeur	\| From 1 to 5 years	From i) to 10 years	All under 20 years	From 20 to 40 years	\| From 40 to GO years j	F rom 60 to 80 years	80 years & upwards

Page 16

Social position of the deceased.—The relative proportion per cent, of the mortality borne by the several classes of the inhabitants during the five years 1878—82 is compared with that of the past year in the following table:—

Social Status.	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883

Page 17

The whole of the deaths which formed the subjects of inquiry in the district as well as in the several sub-districts, with the verdicts, are enumerated in the following table:—

VERDICTS.	SUB-DISTRICTS.
	Battersea.		Clapliam.	Putney.	Streatham.	Wandsworth.	Total.
	East.	West.

Page 29

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

BATTERSEA EAST.	Total Deaths from each class of Disease, Ac., in the Sub-district.	Sex.		Age.									Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881 54,675 Official Population in middle of 1883. 60,758 Area in acres, 947.		Males.	Females.	Under 1 year. . .	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 20 years.	All under 20 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 and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Laboring Classes.
Diseases and other Causes of Death.		Males.	Females.	Under 1 year. . .	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 20 years.	All under 20 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 and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Laboring Classes.

Page 44

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

BATTERSEA EAST.	Total Deaths from each class of Disease, Ac., in the Sub-district.	Sex.		Age.									Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881 52,586 Official Population in middle of 1883. 58,439 Area in acres, 1,396.		Males.	Females.	Under 1 year. . .	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 20 years.	All under 20 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 and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Laboring Classes.
Diseases and other Causes of Death.		Males.	Females.	Under 1 year. . .	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 20 years.	All under 20 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 and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Laboring Classes.

Page 45

Zymotic Diseases.—The following table contrasts all death from Zymotic causes during the past 10 years.

	1874	1875	870	1877 1	878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883

Page 47

The following table contrasts all deaths from Non-Zymotic causes during the past 10 years.

	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1880

Page 52

Marriages, Births and Deaths during the eleven years 1873—83.

Years.	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883

Page 54

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

CLAPHAM.		Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub.District,	Sex.		Age.									Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881 36,380 Official Population in middle of 1883 38,406 Area in Acres, 1,233			Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 20 years.	All under 20 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, &e.	Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &e.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
DISEASES And other Causes of Death,			Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 20 years.	All under 20 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, &e.	Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &e.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.

Page 61

Some sub-classes, which appeared to me unnecessary, have been omitted and others which I deemed useful in classifying the causes of death, adopted.

PUTNEY and ROEHAMPTON.		Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881 13,235. Official Population in middle of the year 1883 14,068. Area in Statute Acres.2,176			Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	At 10 and under 20 years of age.	At 20, and under 40 years of age.	At 40, and under 00 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, Shopman, Clerks, &c.	Industrial & Labouring Classes.
DISEASES, And other Causes of Death			Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	At 10 and under 20 years of age.	At 20, and under 40 years of age.	At 40, and under 00 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, Shopman, Clerks, &c.	Industrial & Labouring Classes.

Page 69

The following table gives the fatal cases from this sub-district, classified according to disease, sex, age, social status as well as Institution in which they died.

DISEASE.	Total.	Sex.		Age.			Class.		Institutions.
DISEASE.	Total.	Male.	Female.	Under 1	1 to 60.	60 and upw'ds.	Middle	Industrial	Union Infirmary.	Infectious Hospitals.	General Hospitals.

Page 72

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

STREATHAM, including		Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c , in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
TOOTING & BALHAM. Population Official population in middle of 1883. 25,55328,042 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 years.	At 20 and under 40 years of age.	At to and under 00 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 Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Class.
DISEASES, And other Causes of Death			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 to and under 00 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 Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Class.

Page 73

The following table contrasts all the deaths which resulted from the seven principal epidemic diseases during the past ten years.

DISEASE.		1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883

Page 75

The following Table contrasts all deaths from non-Zymotic diseases during the past eight years:-

Years	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883

Page 81

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WANDSWORTH.		Total Deaths from each class of Disease &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881,— 28,004. Official Population in middle of 1883,— 29,853. Area in Acres—2,478.			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. Mercharts, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
DISEASES, And other causes of Death.			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. Mercharts, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.

Page 83

Epidemic Diseases, their prevalence and fatality. The following table exhibits the total number of deaths that occurred from the seven principal Epidemic diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relative proportion which they bore to the deaths from all causes.

Years.	Small Pox.	Measles.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria.	Whooping Cough.	Cholera.	Diarrhœa.	Fever—Typhus and Typhoid.	Total Deaths from Epidemic.	Total Deaths from all causes.	Per centage of deaths from Epidemics to deaths from all causes.

Page 84

The following table shews the months in which the deaths from Epidemic diseases occurred, with the mean temperature of each quarter of the year.

DISEASE.	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
DISEASE.	Mean Temp. 40.0			Mean Temp. 53.0			Mean Temp. 59.5			Mean Temp. 44.9

Page 85

Deaths in relation to Social position.—The proportion per cent. of the total deaths, and of the deaths from Zymotic diseases in relation to the social position of the deceased are shewn in the following table.

Social Position.	Total Deaths.		Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.
Social Position.	1883.	Decennial Average.	1883.	Decennial Average.

Page 87

Inquests.—Violent deaths.—Uncertified deaths.—The number of inquests held during the year were 39; these, with the resulting verdicts are set forth in the subjoined table:—

Page 92

TABLE I. Births and Deaths registered during the year 1883. BIRTHS.

SUB-DISTRICTS.		Males.	Females.	Total.

Page 93

TABLE II. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1883, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative Numbers in each Sub-District.

POPULATION OF ENTIRE DISTRICT, As corrected by the Registrar-General		Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c, in the entire District.	Sub-District					Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Census 1881—210,434. Official Population for middle of year, 1883, 229,566, Area in Statute Acres, 11695.			Battersea—Population 119,197, area in acres, 2.343,	Clapham—Population 38,400 area in acres,1,233,	Putney—Population, 14,068, area in acres, 2,170,	Streatham, Tooting and Balharn—Population, 28.042, area in acres, 3,405,	Wandsworth—Population, 29,853, area in acres, 2,478.	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. Mercharts, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
DISEASES, And other causes of Death.			Battersea—Population 119,197, area in acres, 2.343,	Clapham—Population 38,400 area in acres,1,233,	Putney—Population, 14,068, area in acres, 2,170,		Wandsworth—Population, 29,853, area in acres, 2,478.	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. Mercharts, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.

Page 94

TABLE III, Showing the total number of deaths and their causes registered in the entire District, during the eleven years 1873-83, with the relative numbers of each class of disease,

DISEASES, And other causes of Death		1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883

Page 95

TABLE IV. Showing the total Deaths from the seven principal Epidemic Diseases registered in each Sub-District, and in tho entire District, with the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1873-1883.

Deaths from the seven principal Epidemics in each Sub-District.						Entire District.
Years.	Battersea.	Clapham.	Putney.	Streatham.	Wandsworth.	Total Deaths from the Seven Epidemics.	Total Deaths Registered from all causes.	Per centage of Deaths from the Seven Epidemics to Total Deaths.

Page 96

TABLE V. Cases of Sickness amongst the Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1883. Compiled from the District Medical Belief Books.

SUB-DISTRICTS.		Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.	1—Small Pox.		2—Measles.		3—Scarlatina. and Diphtheria.		4—Whooping Cough.		5—Diarrhœa and 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.
SUB-DISTRICTS.		Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.	Total Deaths in each Sub-District.

Page 97

TABLE VI. Summary of the Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1883.

	Battersea.	C'lapham	Putney and Roehampton.		Streatham, including Tooting & Balham.	Wandsworth.	Totals.

Page 98

TABLE VII. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FOR LONDON, 1883. (Deduced from Observations, at Greenwich, under the Superintendence of the Astronomer Royal, and compiled from Quarterly Tables, furnished to the Registrar General by James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S.

Winter Jan., Feb., March,	Spring April, May, June,	Summer July, Aug., Sept.	Autumn Oct., Nov., Dec.	Temperature of									Flastic Force of Vapour.		Weight of Vapour in a Cubic Foot of Air.		Degree of Humidity.		Reading of Barometer.		Weight of a Cubic Fool of Air.		Rain.		Reading of Thermometer on Grass.
				Air.			Evaporation.		Dew Point.		Air— Daily Range.		Flastic Force of Vapour.		Weight of Vapour in a Cubic Foot of Air.		Degree of Humidity.		Reading of Barometer.		Weight of a Cubic Fool of Air.		Rain.		Number of Nights it was			Lowest Reading at Night.	Highest Reading at Night.
				Mean.	Diff. from Average of 112 Years.	Diff. from Average of 42 years.	Mean.	Diff. from Average of 42 years.	Mean.	Diff. from Average of 42 Years.	Mean.	Diff. from Average of 42 Years.	Mean.	Diff. from Average of 42 Years.	Mean.	Diff. from Average of 42 Years.	Mean. (Sato=100)	Diff. from Average of 42 Years.	Mean.	Diff. from Average of 42 Years.	Mean.	Diff. from Average of 42 Years.	Mean.	Diff. from Average of 42 Years.	At or below 30º.	Between 30° & 40º.	Above 40º.	Lowest Reading at Night.	Highest Reading at Night.

London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report tables

Wandsworth 1883

30 tables in this report

Birth-rates, Death-rates, and rates of Naiurat-tncreas in the entire district during the ten gears 1873—82, compared with those of the year 1883.

The following Table shews the death-rates of the several sub-districts in relation to the amount and density of population and the proportional number of the industrial classes which each sub-district possesses:—

Return made February 7th, 1884, by the Vaccination Officers, respecting the Vaccination of children whose births were registered in the entire district from 1st January to December 31st, 1882 inclusive ;—

The increase or decrease in the number of deaths that occurred in each class of disease in relation to its decennial average corrected for increase of population is compared in the following table;—

All the deaths in the past and ten preceding years are classified according to age for comparison with each other in the following table:—

Social position of the deceased.—The relative proportion per cent, of the mortality borne by the several classes of the inhabitants during the five years 1878—82 is compared with that of the past year in the following table:—

The whole of the deaths which formed the subjects of inquiry in the district as well as in the several sub-districts, with the verdicts, are enumerated in the following table:—

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Zymotic Diseases.—The following table contrasts all death from Zymotic causes during the past 10 years.

The following table contrasts all deaths from Non-Zymotic causes during the past 10 years.

Marriages, Births and Deaths during the eleven years 1873—83.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Some sub-classes, which appeared to me unnecessary, have been omitted and others which I deemed useful in classifying the causes of death, adopted.

The following table gives the fatal cases from this sub-district, classified according to disease, sex, age, social status as well as Institution in which they died.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

The following table contrasts all the deaths which resulted from the seven principal epidemic diseases during the past ten years.

The following Table contrasts all deaths from non-Zymotic diseases during the past eight years:-

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Epidemic Diseases, their prevalence and fatality. The following table exhibits the total number of deaths that occurred from the seven principal Epidemic diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relative proportion which they bore to the deaths from all causes.

The following table shews the months in which the deaths from Epidemic diseases occurred, with the mean temperature of each quarter of the year.

Deaths in relation to Social position.—The proportion per cent. of the total deaths, and of the deaths from Zymotic diseases in relation to the social position of the deceased are shewn in the following table.

Inquests.—Violent deaths.—Uncertified deaths.—The number of inquests held during the year were 39; these, with the resulting verdicts are set forth in the subjoined table:—

TABLE I. Births and Deaths registered during the year 1883. BIRTHS.

TABLE II. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1883, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative Numbers in each Sub-District.

TABLE III, Showing the total number of deaths and their causes registered in the entire District, during the eleven years 1873-83, with the relative numbers of each class of disease,

TABLE IV. Showing the total Deaths from the seven principal Epidemic Diseases registered in each Sub-District, and in tho entire District, with the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1873-1883.

TABLE V. Cases of Sickness amongst the Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1883. Compiled from the District Medical Belief Books.

TABLE VI. Summary of the Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1883.

TABLE VII. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FOR LONDON, 1883. (Deduced from Observations, at Greenwich, under the Superintendence of the Astronomer Royal, and compiled from Quarterly Tables, furnished to the Registrar General by James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S.