London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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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Infantile Death-rate
The deaths of infants under one year of age number
128, or 120 per 1.000 of the registered births, as compared
with 117 or 108 per 1,000 in the previous year.
Social Position. The subjoined table gives the proportion of deaths in the several social grades.
| Nobility and Gentry | 47 = 8.4 per cent. |
| Professional Classes | 48 = 8.6 „ |
| Middle and Trading Classes | 151 = 27.0 „ |
| Industrial and Labouring Classes | 312 = 56.0 „ |
| Total deaths | 555 100.0 |
The proportion of deaths was high as compared with
last year amongst the Nobility and Gentry, and also the
Industrial and Labouring Classes, whilst a marked
declination was prevalent amongst both the Professional
Classes and the Middle and Trading Classes.
Zymotic Diseases,
their prevalence
and fatality.
There were 107 deaths in this class,
including 35 from influenza. They yield a
percentage of 19.1 upon the deaths from all causes.
The seven principal diseases in this class give a deathrate
of 1.1 per 1,000 of the population.
The following table contrasts all the deaths resulting
from the seven principal epidemic diseases with the
death-rate therefrom, as well as the death-rates from all
diseases during the past ten years.