[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 63

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 I.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE I.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WANDSWORTH. Population (Census) 1881 28,004. Official Population m middle of 1890 45,284. CAUSES OF DEATH.				Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Posiiion.
					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			47	30	17	6	39	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	4	42
	Scarlet Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			5	2	3	..	1	..	1	..	3	..	..	..	..	2	3
	Puerperal Fever			2	..	2	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Diphtheria			10	1	9	1	5	3	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	9
	Whooping Cough			35	14	21	17	18	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	10	2
	Erysipelas			2	2	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	24
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, Cholera			37	18	19	30	5	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	5	9	23
	Influenza			7	1	6	2	..	..	..	..	5	..	..	..	..	1	6
Totals of Zymotic Class				145	68	77	57	68	5	1	2	11	1	..	..	8	27	110
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism			13	6	8	..	..	..	1	4	1	5	2	..	1	8	4
	Cancer & other Tumours			24	7	17	..	..	..	..	2	11	10	1	1	3	8	12
	Other Constitutional Diseases			11	1	10	9	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	9
	Tubercular	Phthisis		69	28	41	8	4	1	4	25	23	4	..	1	3	13	52
		Tabes Mesenterica		17	8	9	12	4	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	5	11
		Hydrocephalus		12	5	7	3	7	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	5	6
		Scrofula		1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
III. Local	Nervous			103	55	48	18	18	1	5	10	20	28	3	3	7	32	61
	Circulatorv			40	16	24	2	1	..	1	10	7	14	5	..	4	16	20
	Respiratory			177	85	92	43	36	3	1	8	27	51	8	6	4	46	121
	Digestive			42	21	21	11	2	1	2	6	8	12	..	1	4	13	24
	Urinary			17	5	12	..	..	..	1	1	5	10	..	1	..	6	10
	Generative			6	..	6	..	..	..	..	6	..	..	..	..	1	2	3
	Locomot.ory			2	..	2	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	1	1	..	..
	Integumentary			1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth, and Low Vitality			41	21	20	36	5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	9	32
	Congenital Defects			13	6	7	13	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	6	6
	Old Age			24	5	19	..	..	..	..	..	..	9	15	3	..	17	4
V. Violence				27	12	15	6	3	1	3	6	6	1	1	..	1	5	21
VI. Ill-defined and Not specified			Ill-defined	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..
VI. Ill-defined and Not specified			Not specified	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Totals				787	350	437	220	151	14	20	81	121	145	35	18	40	221	508