[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 130

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: TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

STREATHAM. Population 1891 (Census)42,958					Total deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.					Age.					Social Position.
STREATHAM. Population 1891 (Census)42,958						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.
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 Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
I. Zymotic.		Small-pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		Influenza .			21	11	10	1	3	1	..	..	2	12	2	..	5	10	6
		Measles			36	18	18	7	23	5	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1U	26
		Scarlet Fever			1	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	••
		Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		Enteric Fever			2	2	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	2	• •
		Puerperal Fever			1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
		Diphtheria			1	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		Whooping Cough			19	10	9	6	13	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	14	..
		Erysipelas			4	2	2	..	..	..	..	1	3	..	..	..	..	4	..
		Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and Cholera.			10	4	6	9	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	9
		Other Zymotic Diseases.			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class					95	48	47	23	40	6	3	2	6	13	2	..	6	42	47
II. Constitutional.		Gout and Rheumatism			1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1
		Cancer & other Tumours			32	12	20	..	..	..	..	4	10	17	1	3	5	11	13
		Other Constitutional Diseases.			5	2	3	2	..	..	..	..	1	2	..	..	..	3	2
		Tubercular	Phthisis		29	16	13	..	1	2	5	15	5	1	..	..	2	12	12
			Tabes	Mesa	4	2	2	1	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4
			l Hydrocephalus		11	8	3	5	5	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	4	5
			Scrofula		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
III. Local.		Nervous			77	45	32	17	8	2	1	6	14	28	2	3	12	33	29
		Circulatory			46	27	19		..	2	3	6	11	22	2	3	9	15	19
		Respiratory			127	84	43	17	18	2	1	11	11	57	10	4	10	44	69
		Digestive			36	20	16	8	1	..	2	3	7	12	3	1	14	12	9
		Urinary			13	7	6	1	• •	..	1	2	5	3	1	..	2	6	6
		Generative			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
		Locomotory			2	..	2	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	2	..	..
		I Integumentary			1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	..
IV. Developmental.		Premature Birth and Low Vitality			40	21	19	40	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	5	14	20
		Congenital Defects			1	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
		.Old Age			29	16	14	..	..	..	..	..	..	10	19	3	5	7	14
V.Violence					5	3	2	1	..	..	..	1	2	1	..	1	1	..	3
VI.Illdefined and Not Specified				Illdefined ..	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
VI.Illdefined and Not Specified				Not Specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals					555	312	243	117	76	16	16	49	73	168	40	22	75	204	264