[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 76

Wandsworth 1887

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

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TABLE II.

PUTNEY			Total Deaths from each Class of Disease.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881		18,221		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.	At 40 and under 60 years.	At 60 and under 80 years.	80 years and upwards.	Nobility and Gentry.	Professional, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, &c.	Industrial & Labouring Classes.
Official Population in middle of 1887		15,590.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.	Small-pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles		2	1	1	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Diphtheria		1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Scarlet Fever		1	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Whooping Cough		2	1	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1
	Erysipelas		1	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Diarrhoea		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Dysentery & Cholera.		..			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Other Zymotic Diseases		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class			7	3	4	2	4	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	6
II. Constitutional.	Gout & Rheumatism		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..		..	..	..	..	..
	Cancer & other Tumours		11	4	7	..	..	..	1	..	2	7	1	..	3	5	3
	Tubercular		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Phthisis		20	12	8	2	..	1	4	9	4	..	..	..	3	5	12
	Tabes Mesa		9	1	1	9	..	..	..	..	..	..	..		..	..	2
	Hydrocephalus		1	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	....	..	..	1	..	..
			1	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
Nervous			36	16	20	15	8	..	1	9	2	6	2	..	7	1	28
..III. Local.	Circulatory		23	12	11	1	..	..	1	1	9	10	1	..	4	4	15
	Respiratory		34	17	17	5	6	..	..	2	8	12	2	1	2	12	19
	Digestive		20	7	13	11	1	..	..	..	..	7	1	..	2	5	13
	Urinary		8	4	4	..	..	..	..	1	1	5	1	..	4	9	2
	Generative		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Locomotory		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	....	..	..	..
	Integumentary		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Pemature Birth :
	Atrophy		14	10	4	13	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	12
	Old Age		12	5	7	..	..	....	..	..	..	8	4	..	2	3	7
	Cause Unown		..	..	..	....	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
V. Violence			7	4	3	..	..	..	..	4	3	..	..	..	1	6	..
Totals			196	97	99	53	19	2	7	19	29	55	12	1	31	45	119