[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 96

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.

WANDSWORTH. Population (Census) 1881 28,00 Official Population in middle of 1885 31,497				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 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.					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 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.
I. Zymotic.	Small-pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles			28	21	7	9	18	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	25
	Scarlet Fever			6	3	3	..	5	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	6
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			8	3	5	..	..	..	1	4	1	..	..	..	..	3	5
	Puerperal Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diphtheria			10	6	4	2	4	2	..	1	..	1	..	..	3	1	6
	Whooping Cough			31	16	15	15	16	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	8	22
	Erysipelas			4	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	3	..	..	1	..	2	1
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera			28	15	13	26	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	6	21
	Other Zymotic Diseases			1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Totals of Zymotic Class				116	67	49	54	45	5	1	6	4	1	..	1	5	23	87
ii. Constitutional.	Gout, and Rheumatism			6	3	3	..	..	..	..	1	1	4	..	..	..	2	4
	Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional			21	9	12	..	..	2	..	1	1	11	..	3	1	8	9
	Diseases			3	2	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	1	2
	Tubercular	Phthisis		54	24	30	8	7	..	9	21	16	..	..	3	3	17	31
		Tabes Mesenterica		24	15	9	17	6	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	4	20
		Hydrocephalus		8	5	3	2	5	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	5
		Scrofula		1	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
III. Local.	Nervous			151	82	69	34	11	1	1	29	45	29	1	2	8	50	91
	Circulatory			46	16	30	1	2	1	1	4	16	20	1	1	4	18	23
	Respiratory			135	70	65	31	41	5	1	8	17	26	6	3	1	32	99
	Digestive			30	17	13	11	..	2	1	4	9	3	..	3	3	7	17
	Urinary			26	17	9	..	..	..	1	3	10	10	2	1	..	15	10
	Generative			4	..	4	..	..	..	..	3	..	1	..	..	..	2	2
	Locomotory			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality			37	23	14	37	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	8	26
	Congenital Defects			8	5	3	7	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	3	4
	Old Age			32	7	25	..	..	..	..	..	..	12	20	3	1	14	14
V. Violence				17	14	3	2	2	..	1	3	6	3	..	..	..	1	16
VI. Ill-defined and Not specified			Ill-defined.	2	2,	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	2
VI. Ill-defined and Not specified			Not specified	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Totals				722	379	343	207	120	17	9	85	133	121	30	20	30	208	464