Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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TABLE III.
STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
WANDSWORTH. | Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District. | Sex. | Age. | Social Position. | |||||||||||||
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Population (Census) 1881 28,00 Official Population in middle of 1885 31,497 CAUSES OF DEATH. | Males. | Females. | Under 1 year. | From 1 to 5 years. | From 6 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 yoars of age. | 80 years and upwards. | Nobility and Gentry. | Professional Class Merchants, Bankers, &c. | Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. | Industrial and Labouring Classes. | |||
I. Zymotic. | Small-pox | 3 | .. | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | |
Measles | 19 | 13 | b | 1 | 17 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 17 | ||
Scarlet Fever | 3 | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | ||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Enteric Fever | 4 | 2 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | ||
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Diphtheria | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | ||
Whooping Cough..... | 24 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 19 | ||
Erysipelas | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||
Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera | 35 | 18 | 17 | 29 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 2 | 6 | 26 | ||
Other Zymotic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Totals of Zymotic Class | 97 | 51 | 46 | 43 | 40 | 5 | .. | 4 | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | 4 | 17 | 75 | ||
u. Constitutional. | Gout, and Rheumatism | 6 | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Cancer & other Tumours | 21 | 7 | 14 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 4 | 13 | 3 | .. | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 | ||
Other Constitutional Diseases | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | ||
Tubercular | Phthisis | 67 | 36 | 31 | 2 | b | 1 | 9 | 27 | 15 | 1 | .. | 3 | 6 | 17 | 41 | |
Tabes Mesa | 12 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||
Hydrocephalus | 8 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
Scrofula | 3 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | ||
III. Local. | Nervous | 145 | 79 | 66 | 19 | 15 | .. | 2 | 25 | 48 | 34 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 46 | 92 | |
Circulatory | 36 | 12 | 24 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 17 | ||
Respiratory | 101 | 57 | 44 | 2b | 27 | 2 | 1 | 7 | lb | 20 | .. | 1 | 2 | 24 | 74 | ||
Digestive | 22 | 8 | 14 | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | V | 7 | .. | 3 | .. | 7 | 12 | ||
Urinary | 12 | 9 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 6 | .. | 3 | .. | 4 | 5 | ||
Generative | 6 | 1 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | ||
Locomotory | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | |||
Integumentary | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | ||
IV. Developmental. | Premature Birth and Low Vitality | 34 | 22 | 12 | 34 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 28 | |
Congenital Defects | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | ||
Old Age | 34 | 15 | 19 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 20 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 25 | ||
V. Violence | 15 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 3 | .. | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 14 | ||
VI. Ill-defined and Ill-defined | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Not specified Not specified | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Totals | 628 | 330 | 298 | 148 | 99 | 10 | 20 | 87 | 122 | 123 | 19 | 20 | 26 | 160 | 422 |