[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 110

Wandsworth 1891

[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, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (censes) 1891 43,698					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 Classes, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
CAUSES OF DEATH.					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 Classes, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles			32	19	13	8	22	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	30
	Scarlet Fever			1	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			4	1	3	..	..	..	..	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	4
	Puerperal Fever			1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Diphtheria			2	1	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Whooping Cough			20	8	12	6	12	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	18
	Erysipelas			2	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	2
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, and Cholera			12	8	4	6	3	1	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	4	8
	Influenza			22	6	16	..	3	..	..	4	4	10	1	2	1	7	12
Totals of Zymotic Class				96	45	51	21	41	5	..	9	5	13	2	2	3	14	77
II. Consitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism			7	3	4	..	..	1	..	1	1	4	..	1	..	2	4
	Cancer & other Tumours			32	5	27	..	..	..	..	3	15	11	3	2	4	11	15
	Other Constitutional Diseases.			3	1	2	2	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3
	Tubercular	Phthisis		43	28	15	1	..	1	6	14	17	4	..	1	1	14	27
		Tabes Mesenterica		6	5	1	3	2	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	4
		Hydrocephalus		17	10	7	8	4	4	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	13
		Scrofula		5	5	..	..	1	..	1	1	2	..	..	..	..	2	3
III. Local.	Nervous			74	30	44	17	7	..	4	3	15	21	7	3	10	21	40
	Circulatory			59	28	31	..	2	..	3	13	21	19	1	4	4	19	32
	Respiratory			125	52	73	28	20	..	1	8	18	38	12	4	10	36	75
	Digestive			32	11	21	9	..	2	3	4	3	11	..	..	3	12	17
	Urinary			12	10	2	1	..	..	1	2	2	6	..	2	..	2	8
	Generative			1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..
	Locomotory			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality			48	23	25	48	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	16	27
	Congenital Defects			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Old Age			20	7	13	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	14	2	1	8	9
V. Violence				15	9	6	8	2	..	..	..	1	3	1	..	..	2	13
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified.			Illdefined	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified.			Not Specified	1	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Totals				596	273	323	147	79	13	22	59	100	136	40	21	42	165	368

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Table: TABLE II. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.