[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 24

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 II. gives particulars as to the number, causes, ages, and social
position of those who have died.

Table: TABLE II.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE II.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

CLAP HAM.					Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age								Social Position.
Population (caucus) 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 Classes, Merchants &c.	Middle and Trading Class. Shopmen Clerks. Arc.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Official Population in Middle of 1889				45,990
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic	Small Pox				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles				11	7	4	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	8
	Scarlet Fever				2	2	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Typhus Fever				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever				4		2	..	..	..	2	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	3
	Puerperal Fever				2	..	2	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Diphtheria				17	11	6	1	11	3	2	..	..	..	..	1	..	4	11
	Whooping Cough				15	8	7	2	13	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	4	9
	Erysipelas				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera				11	3	8	9	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	1	1	9
Other Zymotic Diseases					4	1	3	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	4
Totals of Zymotic Class					66	34	32	14	34	6	6	..	3	1	..	1	4	13	48
II Constitutional. .	'Gout and Rheumatism				6	1	5	..	..	..	..	1	3	2	..	1	2	1	2
	Other Constitutional				..	..	13	..	..	..	..	1	8	11	1	3	1	8	9
	Diseases.				2	1	1	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
	Tubercular	Phthisis			46	29	17	1	..	..	7	21	12	2	..	..	8	16	22
		Tabes mesa			9	6	3	7	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	4
		Hydrocephalus			..	..	4	10	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	9
		Serfula			1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1
III. Local	Nervous				74	28	46	16	4	1	1	..	11	37	4	4	10	21	33
	Circulatory				56	19	37	..	..	..	2	..	18	25	5	6	12	15	22
	Respiratory				105	45	60	22	25	2	1	7	12	30	6	4	5	29	67
	Digestive				18	9	9	2	1	..	..	1	4	9	1	1	3	6	9
	Urinary				15	11	4	..	..	..	1	..	4	6	1	2	2	6	1
	Generative				1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Locomotory				1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Integumentary				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV . Development.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality				50	28	22	50	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7	30
	Congenital Defects				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Old Age				37	8	29	..	..	..	..	..	..	19	18	3	5	10	1
V. Violence					13	9	4	6	1	..	..	..	6	..	..	..	2	1	1
VI. Ill defined and Not Specified.			Ill defined		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
VI. Ill defined and Not Specified.			Not Specified		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals					534	246	288	129	71	10	19	44	83	142	36	25	60	143	30

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Table: TABLE II.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.