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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 II

TOOTING. Population (Census) 1881 4,851 Offical Population in middlie 5,187 CAUSES OF DEATH.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, 1 &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Males.Females. 1Under 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 & Labouring Classes.
I. Zymotic.Small-pox..............................
Measles....31......................
Scarlet Fever11....1....................
Typhuus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever..............................
Puerperal Fever..........................1..
Diptheria11..........................
Whooping Cough........1....................
Erysipelas..............................
Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and Cholera11..1....................1
Other Zymotic Diseases................................
Totals of Zymotic Class12....462..............75
11. Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism11............1..........1
Cancer & other Tumours..................2..1....1
Other Constitutional Diseases..321........211....23
TubercularPhthisis..21........3........12..
Tabes Messenteric..............................
Hydrocephalus11......1..................
Scrofula..............................
III. Local.Nervous9..442..1....2......36
Circulatory1073........136....442
Respiratory1578221..1..721..59
Digestive4313......1........22..
Urinary..............................
Generative1..1..........1............
Locomotory..............................
Integumentary..............................
lV. Developmental.Premautre Birth and Low Vitaly..415..................23
Congenital Defects..............................
old Age523............141....4
V. Violence..111..........1......11
VI. Illdefined and Not specifiedIlldefined33..1......11....1....2
Not Specified..............................
Totals78502321104178207472938