[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 81

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 VI. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1891, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-District.

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TABLE VI. Summary of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during 1891, classified according to Sex, Age, and Social Position, and showing also the relative numbers in each Sub-District.

POPULATION of entire District, (Census) 1891, 156,931.			Total Deaths from each class of Disease in the entire District.	Sub-Districts.					Sex.		Age.								Social Position
POPULATION of entire District, (Census) 1891, 156,931.				Clapham—Population, 43,698. Area in acres, 1,233.	Putney—Population, 17,771, Area in acres. 2,176.	Streatham — Population, 42,453, Area in acres, 2,904.	Tooting—Population, 5,784. Area in acres, 561.	Wands worth—Population. 46,720, Area in acres, 2,433.	Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 10 years.	From 10 to 20 years.	From 20 to 40 years.	From 40 to 60 years.	From 60 to 80 years.	80 years and upwards.	Nobility and Gentry.	Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle & Trading Class.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Area in Statute Acres, 9,352.
CAUSES OF DEATH
I. Zymotic.	Influenza		61	22	..	21	3	15	23	38	3	6	2	..	8	10	28	4	4	9	22	26
	Small Pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Whooping Cough		75	20	8	19	10	18	40	35	27	45	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	31	43
	Measles		78	32	..	36	..	10	422	36	17	52	8	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	11	66
	Scarlatina		5	1	1	1	..	2	3	2	..	1	..	2	2	..	..	..	..	2	..	3
	Diphtheria		22	2	..	1	..	19	8	14	2	12	7	..	1	..	..	..	..		3	19
	Continued Fever		2	..	..	..	..	2	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	1
	Enteric Fever		10	4	1	2	..	3	5	5	..	..	..	3	5	2	..	..	..	..	4	6
	Diarrhœa, Dysentery & Cholera.		51	12	4	10	..	25	26	25	35	8	1	..	..	2	3	2	..	..	8	43
	Erysipelas		6	2	..	4	..	..	3	3	..	..	..	..	1	3	2	..	..	..	4	2
	Puerperal Fever		6	1	1	1	1	2	..	6	..	..	..	2	4	..	..	..	..	..	2	4
	Other Zymotic Diseases		8	..	7	..	..	1	4	4	1	1	..	..	1	1	3	1	..	..	3	5
Totals of Zymotic Class			324	96	22	95	14	97	155	169	85	125	21	8	23	19	36	7	4	13	89	218
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism		16	7	..	1	3	5	8	8	..	..	2	1	1	4	8	..	1	1	4	10
	Cancer and other Tumours		103	32	9	32	3	27	25	78	..	..	..	1	7	44	43	8	8	11	40	44
	Other Constitutional Diseases		21	3	1	5	7	5	12	9	10	3	1	2	..	2	3	..	..	1	7	13
	Tubercular	Phthisis	183	43	23	29	5	83	98	85	8	6	5	17	66	64	17	..	6	12	60	105
		Tabes Mesa	22	6	..	4	1	11	14	8	10	7	2	2	..	..	1	..	..	..	6	16
		Hydrocephalus	34	17	..	11	..	6	22	12	15	11	6	2	..	..	..	..	..	2	10	22
		Scrofula	7	5	1	..	..	1	7	..	..	1	..	3	1	2	..	..	..	..	3	4
III. Local.	Nervous		287	74	23	77	9	104	153	134	55	35	4	8	24	60	87	14	8	35	91	153
	Circulatory		180	59	22	46	14	39	85	95	1	2	2	10	26	58	74	7	13	22	61	84
	Respiratory		510	125	43	127	14	201	255	255	102	93	5	5	34	75	155	41	13	37	157	303
	Digestive		149	32	26	36	4	51	69	80	46	8	4	9	15	23	38	6	4	24	53	68
	Urinary		55	12	8	13	..	22	37	18	2	1	..	2	10	10	28	2	3	6	22	24
	Generative		12	1	1	..	1	9	..	12	..	..	..	..	8	4	..	..	2	3	4	3
	Locomotory		4	..	..	2	..	2	2	2	..	1	1	..	..	2	..	..	..	2	..	2
	Integumentary		1	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	..
IV. Developmental.		Premature Birth, Low	156	48	10	40	5	53	87	69	155	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	14	39	102
		Vitality	156	48	10	40	5	53	87	69	155	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	14	39	102
		Congenital Defects	14	..	..	1	..	13	8	6	13	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	9
Old Age			95	20	10	29	9	27	41	54	..	..	..	..	..	..	36	59	10	12	23	50
V. Violence			54	15	9	5	1	24	42	12	12	5	3	6	7	13	7	1	1	2	7	44
VI. Illdefined &			9	..	5	1	3	..	6	3	7	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	2	7
Not specified			1	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Totals			2237	596	213	555	93	780	1128	1109	522	301	56	76	222	380	535	145	74	197	684	1282