[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 10

Wandsworth 1889

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

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Table: TABLE VISummary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1889 classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Pub-District.

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TABLE VI

Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1889 classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Pub-District.

population; of entire District, (Census) 1881, 103,172. Official Population in middle of 1888, 142,108, Area in Statute Acres, 0,352. CAUSES OF DEATH.			Total Deaths from each class of Disease in the entire District.	Sub-Districts.					Sex.		Age.								Social Position
				Clapham—Population, 45,990, Area in acres, 1.233.	Putney—Population, 16,330, Area in acres. 2,176.	S trtatham—Population, 40,. 00, Area in acres, 2.904.	Tooting—Population, 5,187, Area in acres. 561.	Wandsworth—Population 34,778, 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.	From 20 to 40 years.	From 40 to 60 years.	From 60 to 80 years.	0 years and upwards.	Nobility and Gentry.	Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle & Trading Class.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Small pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
I. Zymotic	Whooping Cough		39	15	6	9	3	6	19	20	14		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles		31	11	2	5	6	7	15	16	6	21	3	1	..	..	..	..	1	1	9	20
	Scarlatina		5	2	1	1	1	..	4	1	2	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
	Diphtheria		30	17	..	6	1	6	18	12	1	22	3	3	1	..	..	..	1	2	7	20
	Typhus Fever		1	..	..	..	..	1		1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Enteric Fever		9	4	1	1	..	3	4	5	..	..	..	4	4	1	..	..	..	..	3	6
	Diarrhoea, Dysen tery & Cholera		41	11	0	8	1	21	16	25	38	..	....	..	..	1	2	..	..	2	11	28
	Erysipelas		5	..	2	1	..	2	2	3	..	..	..	..	..	3	2	..	..	..	2	3
	Puerperal Fever		3	2	..	..	..	1	..	3	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3
	Other Zymotic		5	4	..	1	..	..	1	4	..	..	2	1	..	2	..	..	..	1	..	4
Totals of Zymotic Class			169	66	12	32	12	47	79	90	61	71	9	10	7	7	4	0	2	14	44	109
II. Constitutional.	Gout, and Rheumatism		14	6	..	3	1	4	6	8	..	..	3	1	1	5	4	..	1	3	4	6
	Cancer and other Tumours		68	21	6	18	2	21	22	46	..	..	1	1	5	25	32	4	6	11	19	32
	Other Constitu- tional Diseases		15	2	1	..	5	7	8	7	7	1	..	..	1	3	2	1	..	..	7	8
	'Tubercular	Phthisis	131	46	17	26	3	47	78	61	5	7	3	16	58	41	9	..	2	24	38	75
		Tabes Mesa	40	9	3	9		19	24	16	23	13	2	1	1	..	..	..	1	2	10	2(
		Hydrocephalus	34	13	4	11	1	5	27	7	16	13	4	..	1	..	..	..		1	9	24
		Scrofula	6	1	..	4	..	1	3	3	1	3	..	..	..	2	..	..	I	..	4	1
Nervous			282	74	32	77	9	90	144	138	58	23	7	5	24	55	92	15	12	31	97	142
III. Local.	Circulatory		146	56	17	37	10	26	60	80	2	0	3	5	20	45	61	10	12	27	41	6
	Respiratory		302	105	30	65	15	87	151	151	65	56	1	4	14	50	87	21	11	25	76	191
	Digestive		107	18	19	35	4	31	49	58	23	10	1	3	11	16	38	3	6	16	35	5
	Urinary		50	15	5	13	0	17	31	10	0	0	0	2	5	13	25	5	5	9	18	18
	Generative		14	1	0	7	1	5	..	14	..	..	..	..	11	3	..	..	..	2	4	8
	Locomotory		2	1	0	0	0	2	3	..	1	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	2	1
	Integumentary .		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.		Premature Birth, Low Vitality	149	50	14	44	5	36	94	55	148	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	13	30	105
IV. Developmental.		Congenital Defects Old Age	103	37	8	20	5	33	33	70	..	..	..	..	..	..	53	50	12	12	31	48
V. Violence			48	13	9	9	2	15	33	15	14	6	1	1	11	13	2	0	..	6	4	38
VI. Illdefined & not specified			3	..	..	..	3	..	3	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	1	..	..	5
VI. Illdefined & not specified			6	..	6	..	..	1	3	3	4	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	6
Total			1698	534	182	410	78	494	851	847	429	204	41	49	174	283	409	109	73	196	474	956