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Wandsworth 1886

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

Published
1887
Pages
110
Tables
42

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42 tables in this report

  • Page 6
    TABLE J.
    BIRTHS.RATES.
    Sub-Districts.Males.Females.Total.Birthrate.Rate of Natural Increase.
  • Page 6
    TABLE II.
    DEATHS.Death-rate.
    Sub-Disteicts.Males.Females.Total.
  • Page 7
    TABLE III. Birth-rates, Death-rates, and rates of Natural Increase in the entire district during the ten years 1876—85, compared with those of the year 1886.
    Years.Births.Birth-rate per1000.Deaths.Death-rate per 1000.Natural Increase.Rate of Natural Increase per 1000.
  • Page 9
    TABLE IV. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.Number in Entire District.East Battersea.West Battersea.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Wandsworth.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
  • Page 11
    TABLE V.
    SUB-DISTRICTS.Population in the middle of 1886.Percentage of Total, Population.Density of Population— Number of Persons to an Acre.Relative Mortality per cent. of Industrial and other Classes.Death-rate per 1000 excluding deaths in Public Institutions, within and without the Sub-district.Death-rate per 1,000 including deaths in Outlying Institutions, excluding deaths in Public Institutions within the Sub-district.
    Industrial Classes.Other Classes.
  • Page 12
    TABLE VI. S ummary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1886, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and shewing also the relative numbers in each Sub-district.
    POPULATION of entire District, (Census) 1881, 210,434. Official Population in middle of 1886, 257,742. Area in Statute Acres, 11,695.Total Deaths from each class of Disease in the entire District.Sub-Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position
    Kast Battersea—Population, 69,602. Area in acres, 947,West Battersea—Population, 67,265. Area in acres, 1,396Clapham—Population. 41,945. Area in acres, 1,233.Putney—Population, 15,210. Area in acres. 2,176.Streatham. Tootintr and Balham—Population $1 31,400 Ares in acres 3465.Wandswoith—Population, 32,320. Area in 2478.Males.Females.Uuder 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, &cMiddle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks,&cIndustrial and Laboring Class.
    CAUSES OP DEATH.
  • Page 13
    TABLE VII
    Social Status.18791880188118821883188418851886
  • Page 14
    TABLE VIII. Showing the total number of deaths and their causes registered in the entire District, during the eleven years 18 76 -86, with the relative numbers of each class of disease.
    DISEASES, And other causes of Death18761877187818791880188118821883188418851886
  • Page 15
    TABLE IX.
    Whole District.East Battersea.West Battersea.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Wandsworth.
  • Page 16
    TABLE X. Number of cases of Infectious Diseases admitted into the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals during 1886.
    Smalll Pox.Scarlet Fever.En'eric Fever.Typhus FeverUncertain.Measles.
  • Page 17
    TABLE XI.
    SUB-DISTRICr.S.N umber of Births .Returned from 1st January to 131st December, 188.).Successfully Vaccinated.Insusceptiblo of Vaccmation.Had Small-pox.Bead Unvaccinated.Postponed by Medical Certificate.Removed to Dis trictsVaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised.Removed to paces unknown, or which cannot bo reached; and cases not having- been found.
  • Page 19
    TABLE XII.
    Verdicts.Sub-Districts.
    Total.BatterseaClapham, Putney| StreathamWandsworth
    EastWest
  • Page 21
    TABLE XIII. Cases of Sickness amongst the Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1886. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.
    SUB - DISTRICTS.Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.Total Deaths in each Sub-District.1—Small Pox.2—Measles.3—Scarlatina.4—Diphtheria.5—Whooping Cough.6—Diarrhœa and Dysentery.7—Cholera.8—Fever.9—Erysipelas.10—Puerperal Fever.11—Lung Disease except Phthisis.12—Phthisis.13—Hydrocephalus, Atrophy. Scrofula and Infantile Convulsions14—Violence, Privation, and Premature Birth.16—Other Diseases.
    CasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeaths iCasesDeathsCasesDeaths 1CasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeaths |CaResDeaths |CasesDeaths
  • Page 22
    TA B LE XIV. Summary of Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1886.
    East Battersea.West Battersea.Clapham.Putney.Streatham and Tooting.Wandsworth.Total.
  • Page 24
    TABLE XV. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FOR LONDON, 1886. Deduced from Observations, at Greenwich, under the Superintendence of the Astronomer Royal, and compiled from Quarterly Tables, furnished to the Registrar-General by James Glaisher, Esq ., FR.S.
    Winter Jan., Feb March.. Spring April, May, June. Summer July, Aug., Sept. Autumn Oct., Nov., Dec.Temperature ofElastic Force of Vapour.Weight of Vapour in a Cubic Foot of Air.Degree of Humidity.Reading of Barometer."Weight of a Cubic Foot of Air.Rain.Reading of Thermometer on Grass*
    Air.Evaporation.Dew Point.Air— Daily Range.Number of Nghts it wagLowest Reading at Night.Highest Reading at Night.
    Mean.Diff. from Average of 115 Years.Diff. from Average of 45 Years.Mean.Diff. from Aveage of 45 Years.Mean.Diff. from Average of 45 Years.Mean.Diff. from Average of 45 Years.Mean.Diff. from Average of 45 Years.Mean.Diff. from Average of 45 Years.Mean (Satn=100).Diff. from Average of 45 Years.Mean.Diff. from Average of 43 Years.Mean.Diff. fiom Average of 45 Years.Amount.Diff. from Average of 72 Years.At or below 30Between 30° & 40°.Above 40°.
  • Page 28
    TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    YEARS.Births.Birth-rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death-rate.Natural Increase.
  • Page 30
    TABLE 11. Statistics of Mortality.
    EAST BATTERSEA. Population (Census) 1881 54,675 Official Population in middle of 1886, 69,602Total Deaths from each class of Disease. &c., in the Sub-district.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 year*.From 5 to 11 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.1 Industrial and Laboring Classes.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
  • Page 31
    TABLE III. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    EAST BATTERSEA.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Total.Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.GO and upwards.Union InfirmaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
    Disease.
  • Page 33
    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the East Battersea Sub-district.
    1877187818791880188118821883188418851886
  • Page 36
    TABLE V. Comparative Table of Deaths from Non-Zymotic Diseases for 11 years , 1876-86.
    Diseases.18761877187818791880188118821883188418851886
  • Page 48
    TABLE I.
    WEST BATTERSEA Population (Census) 1881 52,587 Official Population in middle of June, 1886 67,265 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.obility and Gent rProfessional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.| Industrial and Labouring \ Classes.
  • Page 49
    TABLE II. Zymotic Mortality in the West Battersea Sub-district.
    1877187818791880188118821883188418851886
  • Page 51
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    1877187818791880188118821883188418851886
  • Page 51
    TABLE IV. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    WEST BATTERSEA.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfirmaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
    Disease.
  • Page 58
    TABLE I. Birth and Death rates.
    YEARS.Births.Birth rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
  • Page 59
    TABLE II. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    DISEASE.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Total.Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
  • Page 60
    STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    CLAPHAM.Total deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Population (Census) 188136,380Males.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, &cIndustrial and Labouring Class.
    Official population in middle of 188641,945
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
  • Page 62
    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in Clapham.
    1877187818791880188118821883188418851886
  • Page 71
    TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    YEARS.Births.Birth-rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death-rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
  • Page 72
    TABLE II.
    PUTNEY and ROEHAMPTON.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease.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.At 40 and under 60 years.At 60 and under 80 years.80 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, &c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
    Population (Census) 188113,221
    Official Population inmiddle of 188615,210.
    Acres2,176
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
  • Page 73
    TABLE III.
    Zymotic Mortality.1877187818791880188118821883188418851886
  • Page 74
    TABLE IV.
    Years.1877187818791880188118821883188418851886
  • Page 76
    TABLE V Deaths at Outlying Institutions.
    DISEASE.Total.Sex.A(1B.Institutions.
    Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylumns Board Hospitals.
  • Page 81
    TABLE I. Births and Death Rates.
    YEARS.Births.Birth.rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death.rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
  • Page 82
    TABLE III. Deaths in Ouflying Ivstitutions.
    DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Male.Female.Under 11 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfirmaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
  • Page 84
    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortalityin the Streatham & Tooting Sub.district.
    1877187818791880188118821883188418851886
  • Page 94
    Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Male.FemaleUnder 1.1 to 60.60 and upwardsUnion Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
  • Page 95
    The Birth and Death rates for the past and ten preceding years are shewu in the subjoined table. Birth and Death Rates.
    Years.Births.Birth.rate.*Deaths from all causes.Death.rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
    Corrected.Uncorrected.
  • Page 96
    STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    WANDSWORTH. Population (Census) 1881 28,00 Official Population in middle of 1885 31,497Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.FemalesUnder 1 yearFrom 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 a ge.80 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional class Merchants, Bankers, &e.Middle and Trading- Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
  • Page 98
    Ron-zymotic Mortality. —Table shewing the number of Deaths in 11 years 1876—86, with the increase or decrease of deaths in 1886, compared with the annual average deaths in 1876—85 raised in proportion to increase of population.
    Causes of Death.1876.1877.1878.1879.1880.1881.1882.1883.1884.1885.1886.1886.
    No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average.
  • Page 99
    Zymotic Mortality. The following table exhibits the total Epidemic Diseases, their prevalence deaths that occurred from Zymotic dis and fatality. eases, particularizing those that resulted from the seven principal Epidemic Diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relative proportion which they bore to the deaths from all causes. It also shews the increase or decrease of deaths in 1886 compared with the annual average deaths in 1 876 85, raised in proportion to increase of population:—
    Diseases.187618771878187918801881188218831884188518861886.
    No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average
  • Page 102
    The following table exhibits the proportion per cent, of deaths from zymotic diseases as well as of the total deaths in relation to the social position of the deceased:-
    Social Position.Total Deaths.Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.
    1886.Decennial Average.1886.Decennial Average.