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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 III.

PUTNEY.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease.Sex.Age.Soc1al Position
Males.FemalesUnder 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.
Population (Census) 188113,221
Official Population in middle of 188916,330
CAUSES OF DEATH.
1. Zymotic.Small-pox..............................
Measles22..11..................2
Scarlet Fever1..11....................1
Typhus Fever..............................
Enter1c Fever1..1........1..........1..
Puerperal Fever..............................
D1phther1a..............................
Whoop1ng Cough61542................15
Erysipelas211..........11......11
Diarrhœa, Dysentery & Cholera..............................
Other Zymotic Diseases..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class124863....111......39
II. Constitutional.Gout & Rheumatism..............................
Cancer & other Tumours6..6........141......15
Other Constitutional Diseases1..1..........1........1..
TubercularPhthisis177101114622....449
Tabes Messenterica33..3....................3
Hydrocephalus24..12....1........1..3
Scrofula..............................
III. Local.Nervous32131945211874..41612
Circulatory17891..1..4533..339
Respiratory30161465..11781,..5124
Digestive1991073..2214....1513
Urinary532..........131....41
Generative..............................
Locomotory..............................
Integumentary..............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth and Low Vitality129312..................210
Congenital Defects22..2..................11
, Old Age8..8............33...,44
V.Violence945211..311....2..7
VI. Illdefined and Not SpecifiedIlldefined..............................
Not Specified5323........2..........5
Totals18285974820591033351322043115