[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 30

Wandsworth 1885

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

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Table: TABLE II.Statistics of Mortality.

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TABLE II.

Statistics of Mortality.

EAST BATTEREA.			Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-district.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881 ...... 54,675 Official Population in middle of 1885, 66,654				Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 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.
CAUSES OF DEATH.				Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 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.
I. Zymotic.	Small-pox		1	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Measles		49	23	26	4	39	6	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	46
	Scarlet Fever		3	3	..	..	..	..	...	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2
	Typhus Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric fever		9	6	3	..	3	..	4	2	..	..	..	..	..	3	6
	Puerperal Fever		8		8	..	..	..	1	7	..	..	..	..	..	1	7
	Diphtheria		8	2	6	..	6	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	6
	Whooping Cough		47	26	21	20	24	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	44
	Erysipelas		5	4	1	1	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	1	4
	Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and Cholera		63	33	30	54	4	..	2	1	1	1	..	..	1	7	55
	Other Zymotic Diseases		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
II. Constitutional.	Totals of Zymotic Class		193	97	96	80	79	9	9	10	3	3	..	..	..	19	171
	Gout and Rheumatism		11	4	7	..	..	..	1	3	1	6	..	..	1	3	7
	Cancer & other Tumours		18	6	12	.	..	..	..	2	7	8	1	1	1	1	15
	Other Constitutional Diseases		7	7	..	7	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
	Tubercular	Phthisis	91	33	58	3	..	5	13	30	38	2	..	..	3	11	77
		Tabes Mesa	62	38	24	53	7	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	1	3	58
		Hydrocephalus	27	12	15	10	15	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	1	24
		Scrofula	1	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
III. Local.	Nervous		104	57	47	32	22	6	7	4	16	12	5	1	2	17	84
	Circulatory		51	24	27	1	..	1	5	3	19	20	2	2	2	10	37
	Respiratory		303	167	136	90	87	5	3	15	49	51	3	..	2	30	271
	Digestive		36	17	19	6	4	1	1	1	14	8	1	.	2	8	28
	Urinary		16	4	12	1	..	..	..	..	5	9	1	.	..	5	11
	Generative		7	1	6	..	..	..	..	3	4	..	..	..	..	1	6
	Locomotory		3	1	2	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3
	Integumentary		1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth, Low Vitality & Congenital Defects.		82	46	36	81	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	8	72
IV. Developmental.	Old Age		22	7	15	..	..	..	..	..	2	11	9	1	1	2	18
V. Violence			32	20	12	19	2	1	1	3	3	3	..	..	..	4	28
VI. Illdefined and Illdefined .			4	4	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	1	..	..	..	..	4
Not Specified ( Not Specified			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals			1071	545	526	385	219	31	41	74	165	134	22	5	22	122	922