[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 30

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 11.Statistics of Mortality.

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TABLE 11.

Statistics of Mortality.

EAST BATTERSEA. Population (Census) 1881 54,675 Official Population in middle of 1886, 69,602			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 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.				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.
Small-pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
I. Zymotic.	Measles		44	23	21	13	28	2	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	4	40
	Scarlet Fever		9	3	6	3	3	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	9
	Simple Continued Fever		1	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Enteric Fever		10	6	4	1	..	3	2	1	3	..	..	..	..	2	8
	Puerperal Fever		8	..	8	..	..	..	..	8	..	..	..	..	..	2	6
	Diphtheria		6	3	3	1	3	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	4
	Whooping Cough		62	27	35	25	37	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	3	5i
	Erysipelas		10	5	6	1	1	1	1	2	3	1	..	..	..	1	9
	Diarrhœa & Dysentery.		78	41	37	60	16	1	..	..	1	..			3	9	6b
	Infantile Cholera		4	2	2	4	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4
	Other Zymotic Diseases		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class			232	110	122	104	92	10	5	13	7	1	..	..	5	23	204
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism		6	2	4	..	1	..	2	2	1	..	..	..	2	1	3
	Cancer & other Tumours		21	7	14	..	..	..	1	10	10	..	..	1	1	3	16
	Other Constitutional
	Diseases		11	5	6	9	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	10
	Tubercular	Phthisis	87	54	33	..	5	5	11	39	23	4	..	..	7	9	71
		Tabes Mesa	93	56	37	63	23	1	3	1	2	..	..	..	2	8	83
		Hydrocephalus	22	10	12	6	12	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	18
		Scrofula		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	••
in. Local.	Nervous		120	60	60	31	30	2	6	3	23	22	3	..	4	20	96
	Circulatory		55	30	25	..	2	1	1	7	22	20	2	..	4	l5	36
	Respiratory		268	149	119	90	73	8	3	15	37	38	4	3	4	29	232
	Digestive		27	13	14	3	2	2	1	2	11	6	..	..	4	2	21
	Urinary		l0	7	3	..	..	1	1	1	5	2	..	..	..	3	7
	Generative (Parturition)		3		3	..	..	..	..	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	3
	Locomotory		2	2	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Integumentary			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth, Low
	Vitality & Congenital		114	63	51	114	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	11	101
	Defects. Old Age		25	10	15	..	..	..	..	..	..	9	16	..	2	12	11
V. Violence			28	25	3	6		4	5	6	5	2	..	••	1	3	24
VI. Illdefined and Illdefined			2	..	2	1	..	..		1			..	..	..	1	1
Not Specified ( Not Specified			3	..	3	..	..	..					..	..	..	..	..
Totals			1129	603	526	427	245	37	41	93	13b	114	25	4	38	145	942