[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 59

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 III.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE III.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

CLAPHAM. Population (Census) 1881 36,380 Official Population in middle of 1885 40,832 Area in Acres, 1233. causes of death.				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 and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Laboring Classes.
I. Zymotic.	Small-pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles			3	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2
	Scarlet Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			8	4	4	..	2	..	2	3	1	..	..	..	3	1	4
	Puerperal Fever			3	..	3	..	..	..	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	2	1
	Diphtheria			4	9	2	..	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	2
	Whooping-Cough			25	9	16	10	15	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	9	14
	Erysipelas			2	..	2	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera			16	13	3	11	3	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	1	6	10
	Other Zymotic Diseases			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class				61	30	31	21	26	1	4	5	2	2	..	..	6	20	35
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism			3	2	1	..	..	..	..	2	1	..	..	..	..	2	1
	Cancer & other Tumours			16	4	19	..	1	..	..	1	7	7	..	1	2	7	6
	Tubercular	Phthisis		48	27	21	1	2	..	7	96	11	1	..	8	..	24	15
		Tabes Mesa		7	4	3	3	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	3	3
		Hydrocephalus		10	3	7	4	3	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	7
		Scrofula		3	2	1	1	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	1	1
	Other Constitutional Diseases			1	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
III. Local.	Nervous			80	40	40	15	5	2	2	6	17	28	5	5	11	34	30
	Circulatory			40	13	27	1	..	..	2	7	10	19	1	5	6	15	14
	Respiratory			120	58	62	35	20	4	1	7	21	28	4	5	13	31	71
	Digestive			30	13	17	7	1	..	..	4	7	11	..	2	4	15	9
	Urinary			6	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	3	2	..	..	2	3	1
	Generative			..	..	7	..	..	..	..	4	2	1	..	..	1	2	4
	Locomotory			1	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Integumentary			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV.Developmental.	Premature Birth & Low Vitality			29	18	11	28	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	7	20
	Congenital Defects			7	6	1	7	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	1
	Old Age			31	9	22	..	..	..	..	..	..	14	17	1	6	12	12
V. Violence				8	3	5	2	..	..	..	1	4	..	..	..	..	6	2
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified			Illdefined	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified			Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals				508	237	271	125	64	11	17	65	85	114	27	23	60	192	233