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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 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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| Years. | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Gout & Rheumatism | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Cancer and Tumours | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 5 | |
| Tubercular | 24 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 32 | 23 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 28 | 24 | |
| L | Nervous | 39 | 23 | 26 | 29 | 28 | 34 | 33 | 21 | 33 | 34 | 39 |
| Circulatory | 8 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 11 | |
| Respiratory | 30 | 36 | 23 | 29 | 37 | 42 | 27 | 24 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
| Digestive | 11 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 12 | |
| Urinary | 3 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 10 | |
| Generative | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Locomotory | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Integumentary | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | |
| D | Permature Birth, Atrophy, &c. | 7 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 7 | 17 | 13 |
| Old Age | 6 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 7 | |
| V —Violence | 6 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 11 | |
| (Other diseases) | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Totals | 146 | 147 | 121 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 152 | 140 | 139 | 196 | 171 | |
Ages of the deceased.—During 1884, 52 children under one
year died, giving a percentage of 26.1 of the total deaths. The
percentage in 1883 was 17.8, but of the two previous years it
was 28.7 and 30.0 respectively. The small number of deaths
between five and twenty is somewhat remarkable, namely, 14.
A smaller number of deaths of persons upwards of 60 years
occurred during the present year (namely 47; than last year.
The percentage was 23.6. The year was mild and dry, conditions
favourable to life in the aged.
Social Position.—The various classes of the community are
proportionally represented in the following table.
Nobility and Gentry 4.5
Professional and Merchant Classes 9.5
Middle, Tradesmen, &c. 30.0
Industrial 56.0
100.0
Amongst zymotic diseases diphtheria alone had a preference
for the well-to-do classes, other diseases of the group fell most