[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 27

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

Table: TABLE II.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE II.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

CLAPHAM.				Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, Ac., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Agb.								Social Position.
Population (Census) 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 umder 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, Mer-chants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen .Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Official Population in middle of 1890			43,138
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.	Influenza			4	3	1	1	1	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	2	2
	Small Pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles			17	4	13	5	11	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	17
	Scarlet Fever			2	..	2	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			3	2	1	..	1	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	1	2
	Puerperal Fever			2	..	2	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	1	..	1
	Diphtheria			4	2	2	..	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	2
	Whooping Cough			16	7	9	7	9	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	16
	Erysipelas			1	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera			18	6	12	15	1	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	1	1	16
Other Zymotic Diseases				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class				67	25	42	29	28	2		6	..	2	..	..	2	7	58
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism			9	5	4	..	1	..	..	3	2	2	1	..	..	5	4
	Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional			29	8	21	..	..	..	..	4	9	13	3	1	4	3	21
	Tuber cular	Diseases.		5	3	2	1	4	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	4
		Phthisis		46	27	19	..	1	2	6	18	16	3	..	l	4	12	29
		Tabes Mesa .		15	8	7	10	4	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	14
		Hydrocephalus		16	11	5	5	6	2	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	13
		Scrofula		2	1	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
III. Local	Nervous			77	42	35	19	11	1	3	3	13	21	6	4	9	21	43
	Circulatory			57	23	34	1	..	..	4	5	19	24	4	5	8	14	30
	Respiratory			139	71	68	30	24	4	..	8	23	39	11	4	17	25	93
	Digestive			26	11	15	2	..	1	2	2	9	9	1	1	4	7	14
	Urinary			15	9	6	..	1	..	..	1	5	7	1	..	2	9	4
	Generative			5	..	5	..	..	..	..	1	3	..	1	..	2	1	2
	Locomotory			1	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Integumentary			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality			44	30	14	44	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	6	37
	<	Congenital Defects		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Old Age			27	11	16	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	21	6	4	12	5
V. Violence				16	5	11	6	2	..	..	2	3	..	3	..	..	3	13
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified.			Illdefined	3	2	1	1	..	..	..	1	1		..	..	..	..	3
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified.			Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	....	..	..	..	....	..	..
Totals				599	293	306	149	83	12	19	55	103	126	52	22	58	129	390

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Table: TABLE II.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.