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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)]

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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.
Small-pox..............................
I. Zymotic.Measles44232113282..1..........440
Scarlet Fever93633111............9
Simple Continued Fever1..1....1................1
Enteric Fever10641..3213........28
Puerperal Fever8..8........8..........26
Diphtheria6331311............24
Whooping Cough6227352537..............235i
Erysipelas10561111231......19
Diarrhœa & Dysentery.78413760161....1..396b
Infantile Cholera4224....................4
Other Zymotic Diseases..........................
Totals of Zymotic Class232110122104921051371....523204
II. Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism624..1..221......213
Cancer & other Tumours21714......11010....11316
Other Constitutional
Diseases1156911..............110
TubercularPhthisis875433..551139234....7971
Tabes Mesa93563763231312......2883
Hydrocephalus22101261231............418
Scrofula..........................••
in. Local.Nervous1206060313026323223..42096
Circulatory553025..211722202..4l536
Respiratory26814911990738315373843429232
Digestive27131432212116....4221
Urinaryl073....11152......37
Generative (Parturition)33........21..........3
Locomotory22....1......1..........2
Integumentary............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth, Low
Vitality & Congenital1146351114................211101
Defects. Old Age251015............916..21211
V. Violence28253645652..••1324
VI. Illdefined and Illdefined2..21....1......11
Not Specified ( Not Specified3..3................
Totals112960352642724537419313b11425438145942