[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 41

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.

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 age	80 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.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Scarlet Fever	5	3	2	..	2	2	..	1	..	..	..	..	2	2	1
	Typhus Fever	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever	1	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Puerperal Fever	3	..	3	..	..	..	..	2	1	..	..	..	..	3	,,
	Diphtheria	30	14	16	3	16	9	1	1	..	..	..	..	6	10	14
	Whooping Cough	22	12	10	8	12	2	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	9	12
	Erysipelas	3	2	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	2
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera	13	6	7	9	1	..	..	..	..	3	..	..	..	6	7
	Other Zymotic Diseases	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Totals of Zymotic Class	77	38	39	22	31	14	1	4	1	4	..	1	9	30	37
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism	2	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	2	..
	Cancer & other Tumours	28	3	25	..	..	..	..	2	10	15	1	5	4	6	13
	Other Constitutional	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Phthisis	28	14	14	..	..	..	1	19	7	1	..	1	2	10	15
	Tabes Messenterica	5	3	2	2	2	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	1	1	2
	Hydrocephalus	10	5	5	1	5	4	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	2	5
	Scrofula	6	2	4	••	2	..	2	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	6
III. Local.	Nervous	89	43	46	29	10	1	9	6	9	30	2	6	16	25	42
	Circulatory Respiratory	42 91	23 51	19 40	..21	2 25	..2	.. ..	7 4	11 11	2025	2 3	4 6	119	1527	12 49
	Digestive	30	18	12	6	..	..	1	5	9	8	1	6	..	9	15
	Urinary	14	8	6	..	..	..	1	5	4	4	..	1	4	..	9
	Generative	..	..	....	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Locomotory	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary	1	1	..	••	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
IV.Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality	51	29	22	49	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	20	28
IV.Developmental.	Congenital Defects Old Age	31	16	15	..	..	..	..	..	..	11	20	5	5	8	13
V. Violence		7	5	2	3	1	..	0	2	..	..	1	..	2	..	5
VI. Illdefined and Illdefined Not Specified Not Specified		3	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	3	..	..	..	..	1	2
VI. Illdefined and Illdefined Not Specified Not Specified		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals		515	261	254	133	81	21	9	56	65	120	30,	36	69	156	254