[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 11

Wandsworth 1890

[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 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 Sub-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 Sub-District.

POPULATION of entire District, (Census) 1881, 103,172.		Total Deaths from each class of Disease in the entire District.	Sub-Districts.					Sex.		Age.								Social		Position
POPULATION of entire District, (Census) 1881, 103,172.			Clapham—Population, 43,138. Area in acres, 1,238.	Putnry Population, 17,771, Area in acres. 2,176.	Streatham-Population, 42,000 Areainacres. 2,904.	looting—Population, 5,700. Area in acres, 561.	Wandsworth—population 4o,ra4. Area in acres, 2,433.	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.	80 years and upwards.	Nobility and Gentry.	Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle & Trading Class.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Official Population in middle of 1890, 151,736. Area in Statute Aores, 9,352.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.	Influenza																					21	4	..	10	..	7	..	14	5	1	..	..	3	7	5	..	1	3	7	10
																					..
	Whooping Cough	95	16	8	34	2	35	48	52	43	50	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	7	21	67
	Measles	87	IV	10	12	1	47	48	39	18	63	6	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	6	18
	Scarlatina	2	2	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
		15	4		1	..	10	..	12	2	8	4	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	4	11
	Typhus Fever	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever	14	3	1	4	1	5	..	5	..	2	..	..	6	4	..	..	..	2	6	6
	Diarrhoea, Dysentery & Cholera.. Erysipelas	73	18		15	3	37	34	41	59	9	..	..	..	1	4	..	1	8	15	49
	Diarrhoea, Dysentery & Cholera.. Erysipelas	5	1	1		1	2	4	1	4					1					1	4
	Puerperal Fever Other Zymotic	8	2	1	3		2	..	8	..	..	..	..	8	..	..	..	..	2	..	4
	Diseases	2	..	..	..	2	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1
Totals of Zymotic Class		322	67	21	79	10	145	14'	175	131	136	12	2	17	15	9	..	2	25	63	232
II. Constitutional.	Gout, and Rheumatism	33	9	5	5	1	13	13	20	..	1	2	5	8	4	9	4	1	2	16	14
	Cancer and other Tumours	89	29	8	26	2	24	28	61	..	1		1	7	37	38	5	7	17	26	39
	Other Constitutional Diseases ..	38	5	2	3	17	11	13	25	13	7	1	4	4	2	7		1	4	11	22
	Phthisis	185	46	28	36	6	69	90	95	9	7	5	16	66	73	9		3	16	45	121
	Tabes Mesa	43	15	2	8	1	17	2	22	29	11	2		1					3	10	30
	Hydrocephalus	32	16		4		12	IS	13	8	16	3	4	1					1	9	22
	Scrofula	5	2	1	1		1		3	1	3		1							1	4
Ill .Local.	Nervous	294	77	34	68	12	103	155	139	73	42	4	12'	18	51	80	14	9	34	97	154
	Circulatory	150	57	18	28	7	40	61	89	4	1	1	7	22	41	65	9	7	25	46	72
	Respiratory	473	139	42	95	20	177	231	237	106	75	8	2	27	79	143	33	15	34	135	289
	Digestive	123	26	26	29	..	42	51	72	29	4	3	6	13	24	42	2	4	20	34	65
	Urinary	50	15	5	13		!7	22	28	..	1	..	1	5	11	28	4	2	5	27	16
	Generative	18	5	2	3	2	6		18					13	4		1		4	7	7
	Locomotory	3	1				2	1	2				1	1	1			1	1		1
	Integumentary	1					1		1	1											1
IV. Develop- mental.	Premature Birth, Low	159	44	26	43	5	41	93	66	152	7	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	40	117
	Vitality Congenital Defects	15	..	..	2		13	7	8	15	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	7	6
	Old Age	104	27	4	40	9	24	37	67	..	..	..	..	..	..	38	66	17	14	47	26
V	. Violence	66	16	9	9	5	27	32	34	17	9	1	4	14	12	4	5	17	3	13	50
VI.	IUdefined &	9	3	1	3	1	1	7	2	3	1	1		1	3	1		1	1	1	6
	not specified	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Totals	2213	599	234	495	98	787	1035	1178	592	322	42	65	218	357	473	143	71	212	635	1295