[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 60

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: STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

CLAPHAM.					Total deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881				36,380		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.	Nobility and Gentry.	Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c	Industrial and Labouring Class.
Official population in middle of 1886				41,945
CAUSES OF DEATH.
Small Pox					..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
I. Zymotic.	Measles				11	7	4	2	7	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	4	6
	Scarlet Fever				1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Typhus Fever				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever				3	2	1	..	..	..	..	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	3
	Puerperal Fever				2	..	2	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Diphtheria				6	6	..	1	2	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	3
	Whooping Cough				34	12	22	16	17	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	3	28
	Erysipelas				2	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	1
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera				25	12	13	21	3	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	4	6	14
Other Zymotic Diseases					..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class					84	41	43	41	30	5	1	4	1	1	1	2	9	15	58
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism				3	1	2	..	..	..	..	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	3
	Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional				23	6	17	..	..	..	..	2	12	8	1	3	6	7	8
	Diseases				6	3	3	2	1	..	..	1	2	..	..	..	1	1	4
	Tubercular	Phthisis			42	23	19	2	1	1	6	16	13	3	..	..	8	11	23
		Tabes Mesa			21	11	10	11	7	..	1	..	2	..	..	..	3	3	15
		Hydrocephalus			14	10	4	8	5	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	13
		Scrofula			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
III. Local.	Nervous				79	42	37	20	10	2	3	5	9	24	6	9	10	18	42
	Circulatory				35	9	26	1	..	2	2	2	11	16	1	6	4	5	20
	Respiratory				103	52	51	23	22	2	..	6	10	31	9	7	16	23	57
	Digestive				39	16	23	11	1	..	1	3	13	9	1	3	6	12	18
	Urinary				16	9	7	1	..	..	..	2	8	4	1	..	5	6	5
	Generative				5	..	5	..	..	..	..	5	..	..	..	..	1	1	3
	Locomotory				1	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Integumentary				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth & Low Vitality				28	17	11	28	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	5	21
	Congenital Defects				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Old Age				33	10	23	..	..	..	..	..	..	10	23	4	9	7	13
V. Violence					12	6	6	5	2	..	..	1	2	2	..	..	1	4	7
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified			Illdefined Not Specified		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified			Illdefined Not Specified		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	1
Totals					545	255	290	153	79	13	15	48	84	109	44	34	80	119	312