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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 III.

PUTNEY.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Males.Females.Under 1 Year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.At 25 and under 35 years.At 35 and under £5 years.At 55 and under 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, &c.Industrial & Labouring Classes.
Population (Census) 17,771 1891
CAUSES OF DEATH.
1. Zymotic.Small-pox..............................
Measles..............................
Scarlet Fever1..1....1................1
Typhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever1..1....1................1
Puerperal Fever1..1......1..............1
Diphtheria..............................
Whooping Cough83526................26
Erysipelas..............................
Diarrhœa, Dysentery & Cholera4314..................13
Other Zymotic Diseases74311......131..••34
Totals of Zymotic Class2210127721..131••..616
II. Constitutional.Gout & Rheumatism..............................
Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional936..........333..135
Diseases11..............1........1
TubercularPhthisis2312112..124113....689
Tabes Mes^nterica..............................
Hydrocephalus..............................
Scrofula11........1..............1
III. Local.Nervous..12112611..56....5513
Circulatorv227151......25104..6511
Respiratory4316271051..27108..61126
Digestive26131310213..44....21014
Urinary835........1..7....832
Generative1..1..........1........1..
Locomotory..............................
Integumentary..............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth and Low Vitality107310..................13
Congenital Defects..............................
Old Age1055............561234
V.Violence981....23• •4........18
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified56..5..................14
Totals2131031104720811941522513158123