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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1886

[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 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.

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.
1. Zymotic.Small Pox...............................................................
Measles12441261141128705431866...1............518101
Scarlet Fever2195l......6912314112............1...20
Typhus Fever...............................................................
Enteric Eever3911133138182112671481.........1227
Puerperal Eever188122.........13............121......1...39
Diphtheria3263616102210612931...1......5720
Whooping Cough21362423418263190123961134..................1030173
Erysipelas24106211413114112286...21516
Diarrhœa, Dysentery, & Cholera Other Zymotic23078702592028122108187311...423211541173
Diseases54............1235..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class70123216684366711634635533325928133619112437116544
11. Constitutional.Gout, and Rheumatism2816133......61612...11384101...2521
Cancer and other Tumours117213323217214275...121175154111112966
Other Constitu tional Diseases261156...13131313312151......2321
TubercularPhthisis332871144292654179153131683613910118152862237
Tabes Mesa2379392213424129108167491776......2828199
Hydrocephalus82222314788463635341021............11368
Scrofula.11...8......21748...111............47
Nervous627120169792979151326301181818145211315424254645411
III. Local.Circulatory2985510135184046139159856102710312613112971187
espiratory95226831503359618549645625121221135523231463053155714
Digestive2152769391041)30106109527971769504142855118
Urinary971021168162657401...3214113158103415
Generative313115444231............2343......4522
Locomotory232181...2...1584314344......22l
Integumentary6...6............15...11......13......1...5
IV. Developmental.Premature
Birth, Low
Vitality and
Congenital
Defects29911461288434517712229522..................1442243
Old Age1922574337213269123...57912 2520 1970 1190 ...13 ...21 248 10110 88
V. Violence1002835122617772324
vI. lldefined & Illdefined17211...112987...3...43............413
oot specified not sp'fd.53...l......1...51............211......23
Totals439811291348545179473722225214613966791131234426777881881232978333143