[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 56

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 I.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE I.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WANDSWORTH.			Total Deaths from each class of Disease. &e., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (Census) 1881 28,004.				Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 20 years.	At 2ft 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 Labouring Classes.
OfficialPopulationin middle of 1889 34,788.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I.Zymotic.	Small-pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles		7	3	4	2	4	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	2	4
	ScarletFever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Typhus Fever		1	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	EntericFever		3	1	2	..	..	..	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	3
	PuerperalFever		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Diphtheria		6	3	3	..	5	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	5
	WhoopingCough		6	2	4	3	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	1	2
	Erysipelas		2	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	1	1
	Diarrhoea, Dysentery, andCholera		21	7	14	20	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	6	15
	OtherZymoticDiseases		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	TotalsofZymoticClass		47	17	30	25	12	1	4	2	2	1	..	1	3	12	313
II. Constitutional.	Gout, andRheumatism		4	2	2	..	..	2	1	..	..	..	..		1	1	2
	Cancer & otherTumours		21	6	15	..	..	1	..	2	9	1	2	..	3	5	11
	OtherConstitutional Diseases		7	4	3	5	1	..	..	..	..	7	..	2	..	3	4
	Tubercular	Phthisis	47	25	22	3	3	1	4	17	17	1	..	..	4	8	35
		Tabes Mesenterica	19	9	10	10	7	..	..	1	..	2	..	..	1	2	15
		Hydrocephalus	5	4	1	2	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	4
		Scrofula	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
III. Local	Nervous		90	54	36	10	6	2	..	19	29	..		..	6	27	55
	Circulatory		26	8	18	1	..	..	3	4	9	21	3	2	1	4	25
	Inspiratory		87	41	46	23	17	2	2	4	19	9	..	..	4	18	62
	Digestive		31	12	19	7	1	1	..	4	5	17 11	3	3 2	4	8 4	1
	Urinary		17	8	9	..	..	..	1	..	6	10	2	1	3	..	..
	Generative		5	..	5	..	..	..	..	4	1	..	..		..	2	..
	Locomotory		2	2	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	..
IV. Developmental.	PrematureBirth, and LowVitality,		27	17	10	27	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	..	..
	Congenital Defects..		9	7	2	9	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	12	1
	OldAge		33	14	19	..	..	..	..	..	..	19	14	3	2	1	1
V. Violence			15	12	3	3	3	..	1	5	2	1	..	..	1	..	1
VI. Ill definedand		Ill-defined	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
VI. Ill definedand		Notspecified	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals			94	242	252	128	53	11	16	63	99	100	24	15	37	113	32