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Wandsworth 1892

[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. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

PUTNEY.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
Population (Census), 1891,17,771.Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 & under 45 years.From 45 & under 65 years.From 65 & upwards.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Official Populalation in middle of 1892,18,226.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic Diseases.Small Pox..............................
Scarlet Fever..............................
Diphtheria..............................
Membranous Croup..............................
Typhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever1..1........1..........1..
Continued Fever..............................
Relapsing Fever..............................
Puerperal Fevr2..2........11..........2
Cholera..............................
Erysipelas..............................
Meales..............................
Whooping Cough17710710..............1412
Influenza624........213....15..
Diarrhœa & Dysentery106491..............118
Hydrophobia..............................
Other Zymotic..............................
Totals of Zymotic Class3615211611....423....31122
II. Constitutional.Gout and Rheumatism1..1....1..............1..
Cancer & other Tumours936........4..5....324
Other Constitutional Diseases..............................
Tubercular.Phthisis2215711..2972....2911
Other Tubercular Diseases1..11....................1
III. Local.Nervous3717201041..4711....71119
Circulatory199103......646....298
Respiratory552332810....2827....81334
Digestive20101073..1522....2711
Urinary532..........23....113
Generative211........2..........11
Locomotory..............................
Integumentary..............................
IV. Developmental.Premature Birth and1881018................3312
Low Vitality..............................
Congenial Defects
Old Age523............5....113
V. Violence844....1..331......53
VI. Illdefined & Not SpecifiedIlldefined9729................1..8
Not Specified
Totals247117130732933393565....3374140