[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 47

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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WEST BATTTERSEA Population (Census) 1881 52,587 Official Population in middle of 1885 64,317					Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c„ in the Sub-District,	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
						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 & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring 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 & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes,
I. Zymotic.		Small-pox			1	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
		Measles			63	29	34	13	45	4	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	58
		Scarlet Fever			5	1	4	..	3	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	4
		Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		Enteric Fever			9	3	6	1	1	..	3	4	..	..	..	..	..	3	6
		Puerperal Fever			10	..	10	..	..	..	..	10	..	..	..	..	..	..	10
		Diphtheria			2	..	2	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
		Whooping Cough			74	34	40	38	35	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	71
		Erysipelas			7	4	3	2	..	..	..	3	1	1	..	..	..	..	1
		Diarihcea, Dysentery, and Cholera			63	33	30	54	2	..	1	..	3	3	..	..	..	8	55
		Other Zymotic Diseases			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class					234	105	129	108	88	6	7	17	4	4	..	..	..	20	214
II. Consitutional		Gout and Rheumatism..			9	7	2	..	..	..	1	3	3	2	..	1	..	4	4
		Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional			31	8	23	..	1	..	..	1	18	10	1	..	• •	2	29
		Diseases			8	2	6	..	1	..	1	3	1	2	..	..	2	1	5
		Tubercular	Phthisis		138	77	61	5	6	..	16	61	49	1	..	3	1	11	123
			Tabes Mesa		71	37	34	60	8	..	..	2	..	1	..	..	..	11	60
			Hydrocephalus		9	3	6	4	5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	9
			Scrofula		21	3	18	10	9	1	..	1	••	..	..	1	0	3	17
III. Local.		Nervous			178	91	87	58	17	4	..	10	26	53	6	3	1	26	148
		Circulatory			108	52	56	6	1	2	..	17	33	42	5	3	2	18	85
		Respiratory			327	159	168	112	70	1	1	23	46	69	5	2	1	33	291
		Digestive			52	22	30	7	..	..	1	8	17	17	2	2	2	16	32
		Urinary			30	21	9	1	1	1	..	..	14	9	1	3	..	4	21
		Generative			16	..	16	1	..	..	1	9	2	2	1	..	..	3	13
		Locomotory			5	2	3	1	..	..	..	..	1	3	..	..	..	..	5
		Integumentary ..			4	1	3	1	..	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	••	4
V. Developmental.		/ Premature Birth and \ Low Vitality			55	33	22	55	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	51
		j Congeutial Defects ..			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		V Old Age			54	19	35	..	..	..	..	..	..	26	28	••	..	6	48
V. Violence					29	16	13	15	2	..	1	3	7	..	1	••	••	••	29
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified				Illdefined ..	15	8	7	4	..	..	..	4	4	3	0	..	..	2	13
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified				Not Specified	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	••	••	••	••	1
Totals					1395	666	729	448	209	16	35	166	226	245	50	18	9	164	1204
	Including all deaths in the Infirmary.