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Wandsworth 1888

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

Published
1889
Pages
74
Tables
33

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33 tables in this report

  • Page 6
    TABLE I.
    BIRTHS.RATES.
    Sub-Districts.Males.Females.Total.Birth-rateRate of Natural Increase.
  • Page 6
    TABLE II.
    DEATHS.Death-rate.
    Sub-Districts.Males.Females.Total.
  • Page 7
    TABLE V.
    Sub-District.Population middle of 1888.Percentage of Total Population.Number of persons to 1 acre.Relative mortality 0, Industrial and classes.
    Industrial classes.Other classes.
  • Page 8
    TABLE VI. Summar y of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1888, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-district.
    POPULATION of entire District, (Census) 1881, 210,434, Including Battersea 103,172. Excluding Battersea. Official Population in middle of 1888, 139,078, Area in Statute Acres, 9,352.Total Deaths from each class of Disease in the entire District.Sub-Districts.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Clapham—Population, 43,045. Area in acres, 1,233.Putney—Population, 15,590. Area in acres. 2,176.Streatham, Tooting and Balham—Population, 38,225. Area in acres, 3,465.Wandsworth—Population, 33,141. Area in acres, 2,478.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, Hankers, &cMiddle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks,&c.Industrial and Laboring Class.
    CAUSES OF DEATH
  • Page 9
    TABLE III. Birth-rates, Death-rates, and rates of Natural Increase in the entire district during the ten years 1878—88.
    Years.Birth-rate per 1000.Death-rate per 1000 excluding Battersea.Rate of Natural Increase.Death-rate including Battersea.
  • Page 10
    TABLE IV. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.Number in Entire District.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Wandsworth.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
  • Page 12
    TABLE VII.
    Whole DistrictClapham.Putney.Streatham.Wandsworth.
  • Page 14
    TABLE VIII. Infectious cases admitted into Hospitals of Asylums Board.
    Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.Enteric Fever.Typhus FeverDiphtheria.
  • Page 15
    TABLE IX.
    SUB-DISTRICTS.Number of Births Returned from 1st January to 31st December 1887.Successfully Vaccinated.Insusceptible of Vaccination.Had Small-pox.Dead Unvaccinated.Postponed by Medical Certificate.Removed to District Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised.Removed to places unknown, or which cannot be reached; and cases not having been found
  • Page 16
    TABLE X.
    Verdicts.TotalClaphamPutneyStreathamWandsworth
  • Page 17
    TABLE XI. Sickness amongst Union Poor during 1888.
    SUB-DISTRICTS.Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.Total Deaths in each Sub-District.1.—Small Pox.2—Measles.3—Scarlatina3—Diphtheria.5—Whooping Cough.6—Diarrhœa and Dysentery.7—Cholera.8—Fever.9—.Erysiplas.10—Puerperal Fever.11 —Lung Disease. except Phthisis.12—Phthisis.13—Hydrocephalus, Atrophy Scrotum and Infantile Convulsions.14—Violence, Privation, and Premature .Birth.15—Other Diseases.
    CasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeaths.
  • Page 18
    TABLE XII. S ummary of Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1888.
    Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Wandsworth.Total.
  • Page 22
    TABLE I. Birth and Death rates.
    YEARS.Births.Birth-rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death-rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
  • Page 23
    STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    CLAPHAM.Total deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the bub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Population Census) 188136,380Males.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 188844,145
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
  • Page 24
    TABLE III. Deaths, in Outlying Institutions.
    DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
  • Page 26
    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in Clapham.
    1879188018811882188318841885188618871888
  • Page 30
    TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    YEARS.Births.Birth-rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death-rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
  • Page 31
    TABLE II. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    DISEASE.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Total.Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
  • Page 32
    TABLE III.
    PUTNEY.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Population (Census) 1881 13,221 Official Population in middle of 1888 15,970Males.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.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
  • Page 34
    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the Putney & Roehampton Sub -district.
    Zymotic Mortality.1879188018811882188318841885188618871888
  • Page 39
    TABLE I Births and Death Rates.
    YEARS.Births.Birth-rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death-rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
  • Page 40
    shows the nature of the cause of death, the age, and sex of the deceased, and the character of the institution in which they died.
    DISEASE.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Total.Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfinnaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
  • Page 41
    STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    STREATHAM & TOOTING.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 age80 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading- Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Laboring Classes.
    Population (Census) 1881 25,553Official population in middle of 1888 45,000
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
  • Page 42
    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in the Streatham and Tooting Sub-district.
    1879188018811882188318341885188618871888
  • Page 51
    TABLE I. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infiimary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
  • Page 53
    TABLE II. Birth and Death Rates.
    Years.Births.Birth.rate.*Deaths from all causes.Death.rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
    Corrected.Uncorrected.
  • Page 54
    TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    WANDSWORTH. Population (Census) l881 28,004 Official Population in middle of 1888 33,963Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Mlales.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.At 25 and under 35 years of age.At 35 and under 55 years of age.At 55 and under 75 years of age.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
  • Page 58
    TABLE IV. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
    Diseases.18781879188018811882 .1883188418851886188718881888.
    No. above corrected average.No. bel corrected average.
  • Page 59
    The climatic conditions associated with these deaths are that during the prevalence of the epidemics of Whooping-Cough and Measles, the great majority of the deaths from these diseases occurred in the autumn and winter quarters coincidently with an unusually low temperature, the latter operating unfavourably on these diseases by the development of pulmonic complications.
    DISEASE.JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
    Mean Temp. 36.9Mean Temp. 51.6Mean Temp. 57.6Mean Temp. 44.6
  • Page 61
    TABLE V. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
    Causes of Death.187818791880188118821883188418851886188718881888
    .No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average.
  • Page 62
    Death in relation to Social position. The proportion per cent of the total deaths, as well as of those from zymotic diseases in relation to the social position of the deceased, is shewn in the subjoined table:—
    Social Position.Total Deaths.Deaths from Zymotic Diseases
  • Page 63
    The sex and age of the deceased with the numbers at different periods are tabulated below:—
    AgeMales.Females.Total.
  • Page 69
    general experience in all the surrounding districts has gone to show that, during the latter half of the year, the amount of adulteration has been everywhere on the increase.
    Nature of Article submitted.Total number.Pure.Slightly impure.Impure.Per cent. of adulteration.