[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 148

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 I.

Table: STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WANDSWORTH. Population (Census) 1891 46,720. Official Population in middle of 1891 47,161.				Total Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
					Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 6 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 20 years.	At 29 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 6 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 20 years.	At 29 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			10	5	5	2	7		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	10
	Scarlct Fever .			2	1	1	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2,
	Continued Fever ..			2	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	1
	Enteric			3	..	1	..	..	..	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	2	1
	Puerperal Fever			2	..	2	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Diphtheria			19	7	12	1	10	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	3	16
	Whooping Cough			18	11	7	10	7	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	10	8
	Influenza			15	..	9	2	..	..	..	4	4	4	..	1	2	4	8
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery, Cholera.			25	11	14	16	5	..		..	2	1	1	..	..	2	23
	Other Zymotic Diseases			1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Totals of Zymotic Class			97	44	53	31	30	10	2	11	7	5	1	1	2	22	72
n. Constitutional.	Grout and Rheumatism			5	4	1	..	..	1	1	..	1	2	..	..	1	..	4
	Cancer & other Tumours			'27	5	22	..	..	..	1	..	16	9	1	3	1	14	9
	Other Constitutional Diseases			5	5	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5
	Tubercular	Phthisis		83	38	45	4	5	1	4	31	29	9	..	2	3	23	55
		Tabes Mesenterica		11	6	5	6	2	1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	3	8
		Hydrocephalus		6	4	2	2	2,	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	4
		Scrofula		1	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
III. Local.	Nervous			104	60	44	17	9	..	2	16	25	32	3	2	7	29	66
	Circulatory			39	14	25	..	..	..	2	5	12	20	..	6	1	13	19
	Respiratory			201	94	107	43	46	1	3	13	39	47	9	0	10	60	126
	Digestive			51	22	29	18	4	1	1	6	10	10	1	3	5	18	25
	Urinary			22	17	5		1	..	..	5	3	12	1	1	1	12	8
	Generative			9	..	9	..	..	..	..	6	3	..	..	1	2	3	3
	Locomotory			2	2	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Integumentary			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth, and Low Vitality,			53	33	20	52	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	8	42
	Congenital Defects			13	7	6	12	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	9
	Old Age			27	12	15	..	..	..	..	..	..	11	16	2	2	4	19
V. Violence				24	21	3	2	3	1	3	6	6	3	..	..	1	4	19
VI. Ill-defined and Not specified			Ill-defined	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
VI. Ill-defined and Not specified			Not specified	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	••
Totals				780	389	391	190	106	18	22	99	152	161	32	26	39	220	495

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