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Wandsworth 1897

[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 II.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE II.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

CLAPHAM			Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex		Age								Social Position
CLAPHAM				Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 15 years.	From 15 to 25 years.	From 25 to 45 years.	From 45 to 65 years.	From 65 to 75 years.	75 years and upwards.	Nobility and Gentry.	Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.	Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.	Industrial and Labouring.
Population(Census), 1896} 46,953
Estimated Population}47.804in middle of 1897
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Scarlet Fever		1	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	D1phtheria		4	3	1	..	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	2
	Membranous Croup		2	..	2	..	2	..	..	..	..	..		..	..	..	2
	Typhus Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever		3	..	3	..	..	1	..	2	..	..	..	1	..	2	..
	Continued Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Relapsing Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Puerperal Fever		1	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Choiera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Erysipelas		1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Measles		16	10	6	4	11	..	1	..	..		..	..	..	5	11
	Whoop1ng Cough		5	3	2	4	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	4
	Influenza		9	3	6	..	2	..	1	2	1	1	2	1	2	3	3
	Diarrhœa & Dysentery		44	21	23	35	7	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	2	9	33
	Hydrophobia		..	..	..	..		....	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Other Zymotic Diseases		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class			86	42	44	43	26	3	3	4	4	1	2	2	4	24	56
II. Const1tut1onal.	Gout and Rheumatism		6	2	4	..	..	2	..	1	1	1	1	..	..	3	3
	Cancer & other Tumours		66	12	54	..	1	1	1	12	23	21	7	6	6	24	30
	Other Const1tut1onal D1seases		2	2	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Tubercular.	Phthisis	67	31	36	2	1	2	13	33	14	2	..	1	3	18	45
	Tubercular.	Other Tubercular ( D1seases	23	8	15	8	10	2	1	1	1	..	..	..	3	5	15
	Nervous		54	26	28	13	3	1	..	8	7	17	5	5	6	21	23
III. Local.	C1rculatory		64	30	34	1	1	1	2	7	28	15	9	6	6	20	32
	Respiratory		104	51	53	30	17	2	3	6	19	8	19	2	5	22	75
	Digestive		24	13	11	6	2	..	1	3	5	5	2	2	1	9	12
	Urinary		14	10	4	..	..	1	..	2	4	5	2	1	3	4	6
	Generative		3	..	3	..	..	..	..	2	1	..	..	..	..	1	2
	Locomotory		2	1	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	1	..	1	..
	Integumentory		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..		....	..	..	1
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality		56	33	23	53	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	14	39
	Congenital Defects		2	1	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Old Age		19	7	12	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	19	5	5	7	2
V. Violence			14	9	5	7	2	..	1	1	..	1	2	..	1	2	11
VI. Ill-defined Ill-defined			..	..	..		..	..	..	....	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
& not specified Not Specified			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
			607	278	329	166	66	15	26	82	107	76	69	31	45	175	356