[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 83

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: STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

STREATHAM, including			Total deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
TOOTING & BALHAM. Population (Census) 1881 25,553				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 Labouring Class.
Official population in middle of 1885 30,280 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 Labouring Class.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles		2	2	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Scarlet Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diphtheria		5	3	2	1	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	3
	Enteric Fever		6	3	3	..	3	..	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	4	2
	Puerperal Fever		2	..	2	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
	Whooping Cough		7	4	3	3	4	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	2
	Erysipelas		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera		12	5	7	9	2	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	5	7
	Other Zymotic Diseases		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class			34	17	17	13	13	2	1	5	..	..	..	..	1	16	17
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism		2	..	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	1	..
	Cancer & other Tumours		11	2	9	..	..	..	..	..	3	7	1	3	1	3	4
	Other Constitutional Diseases		4	2	2	3	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	3
	Tubercular	Phthisis	43	14	29	4	3	4	4	21	7	..	..	3	6	10	24
		Tabes Mesa	7	4	3	5	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	6
		Hydrocephalus	9	7	2	3	2	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	3	1	5
		Scrofula	2	2	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	1
III. Local.	Nervous		61	28	33	17	10	4	1	3	10	14	2	6	8	14	33
	Circulatory		26	17	9	1	..	1	1	5	7	10	1	6	2	8	10
	Respiratory		102	49	53	94	17	3	2	7	16	23	10	8	12	31	51
	Digestive		33	15	18	7	2	..	1	1	10	12	..	4	10	10	9
	Urinary		11	7	4	..	..	2	1	3	2	3	..	..	1	5	5
	Generative		5	..	5	..	..	..	..	3	2	..	..	..	1	2	2
	Locomotory		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth & Low Vitality		37	16	21	37	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	11	20
	Congenital Defects		3	..	3	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	..
	Old Age		23	9	14	..	..	..	..	..	..	10	13	8	2	5	8
V. Violence			9	8	1	1	1	1	..	2	3	1	..	..	1	3	5
VI. Illdefined and Illdefined			1	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
Not Specified Not Specified			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals			423	197	226	119	52	20	13	51	60	81	27	38	58	123	204