[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 23

Wandsworth 1888

[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 bub-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 1888			44,145
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles			14	6	8	3	10	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	13
	Scarlet Fever			6	1	4	..	3	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			5	4	1	..	..	..	2	2	1	..	..	1	3	..	1
	Puerperal Fever			1	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Diphtheria			16	6	10	2	6	7	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	13
	Whooping Cough			28	13	15	18	10	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	4	1	22
	Erysipelas			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera			15	6	9	14	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	10
	Other Zymotic Diseases			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class				84	36	48	37	30	10	4	2	1	..	..	2	8	9	65
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism			4	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	..	1	..	..	3
	Cancer & other Tumours			18	4	14	..	..	..	..	1	7	10	..	2	3	4	9
	Other Constitutional Diseases			6	3	3	3	1	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	1	..	5
	Tubercular	Phthisis		38	19	19	..	..	..	2	20	15	1	..	2	3	10	23
		Tabes Messenterica		9	8	1	7	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	8
		Hydrocephalus		15	10	5	7	6	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	2	2	11
		Scrofula		6	3	3	2	1	..	1	1	1	..	..	..	1	1	4
III. Local.	Nervous			70	35	35	25	3	1	2	5	13	17	4	4	15	16	35
	Circulatory			49	19	30	..	..	..	2	7	8	29	3	5	8	12	24
	Respiratory			103	42	61	24	21	1	..	4	21	28	4	5	9	22	67
	Digestive			41	16	25	8	1	1	1	5	14	11	..	5	7	7	22
	Urinary			9	7	2	..	..	..	..	1	5	3	..	1	2	3	3
	Generative			2	..	2	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	1	..	1
	Locomotory			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary			1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality			46	25	21	46	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	10	33
	Congenital Defects			3	..	3	3	..		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2
	Old Age			34	13	21	..	..	..	..	..	..	14	20	4	4	7	19
V. Violence				13	6	7	5	4	..	..	..	2	1	1	..	2	2	9
Illdefined and Not Specified			Illdefined	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Illdefined and Not Specified			Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals				551	249	302	167	68	13	19	49	88	119	32	31	70	106	344