[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 46

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 III.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE III.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

STREATHAM. Population (Census) 1881 21,607 Official Population in middle of 1890 42,000 CAUSES OF DEATH.				Total deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		AGe.								Social Position.
					Males.	Females.'	Under 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 and Labouring Classes.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles			12	9	3	4	6	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	1	9
	Scarlet Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			4	4	..	..	..	..	1	2	1	..	..	..	1	2	1
	Puerperal Fever			3	..	3	..	..	..	..	3	..	..	..	..	1	1	1
	Diphtheria			1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Whooping Cough			34	16	18	15	17	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	10	19
	Erysipelas			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera.			15	5	10	12	2	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	2	3	9
	Influenza			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Other Zymotic Diseases.			10	3	7	2	..	..	..	1	2	5	..	1	3	4	2
Totals of Zymotic Class				79	37	42	34	25	4	1	6	3	6	..	2	14	22	41
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism			5	1	4	..	..	1	1	..	1	1	1	1	1	1	2
	Cancer & other Tumours			26	6	20	..	..	..	1	1	14	10	..	5	8	9	4
	Other Constitutional Diseases			3	1	2	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	1
	Tubercular	Phthisis		36	12	24	..	..	1	2	12	20	1	..	1	5	15	15
		Tabes Mesa		8	4	4	5	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	3	4
		Hydrocephalus		4	3	1	..	3	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	3
		Scrofula		1	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
III. Local.	Nervous			68	34	34	18	7	1	2	2	13	22	3	1	16	28	23
	Circulatory			28	14	14	..	..	..	1	3	7	17	..	2	7	10	9
	Respiratory			95	47	48	14	5	1	1	8	19	37	10	5	10	44	36
	Digestive			29	9	20	3	1	1	1	5	5	13	..	2	9	10	8
	Urinary			13	6	7	..	..	..	..	2	1	9	1	1	3	9	..
	Generative			3	..	3	..	..	..	..	3	..	..	..	..	..	3	..
	Locomotory			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality			43	24	19	41	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	18	24
	Congenital Defects			2	1	1	2									1	1
	Old Age			40	18	22		..	..	..	..	..	18	22	8	7	16	9
V. Violence				9	6	3	1	2	..	..	3	2	1	..	..	..	2	7
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified			Illdefined	3	3	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	1	..	1	..	1	1
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified			Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals				495	226	269	120	50	10	10	46	86	136	37	29	83	195	188