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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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Parish of Streatham.

Table: TABLE III.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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TABLE III.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

Streatham.			Total Deaths from each Class of Disease.	Sex-		Age.									Social Position.
Population census, 1896 54,338				Males.	Females.	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	All under 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.	Middle and Trading Class.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Estimated Population, 1897 58,183
Causes of Death.
I. ZYMOTIC.	Small Pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Scarlet Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diphteria		11	3	8	..	5	5	6	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	10
	Membranous Croup		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Typhus Fever		3	2	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	3
	Continued Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Relapsing Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	....	..
	Puerperal Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Cholera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Erysipelas		2	1	1	1	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Measles		7	3	4	1	6	7	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7
	Whooping Cough		9	7	2	5	4	9	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	9
	Influenza		15	6	9	..	2	2	1	..	3	1	5	3	1	..	..	14
	Diarrhœa & Dysentery		37	22	15	31	6	36	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	35
	Hydrophobia		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Ohter Zymotic Diseases		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
II. Constitutional.	Totals of Zymotic Class		84	44	40	38	22	60	7	2	3	4	5	3	1	..	3	80
	Gout		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..
	Rheumatism		4	3	1	..	..	..	1	1	..	1	1	..	1	1	1	1
	Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional Diseases		23	8	15	..	..	..	..	..	3	12	6	2	1	5	6	11
	Tuber cular.	ceases	5	4	1	2	..	2	..	1	1	..	1	..	..	1	..	4
		Phthisis	51	32	19	3	1	4	2	9	14	20	1	1	..	4	4	43
III. Local.		Other Tubercular Diseases	13	4	9	5	4	9	2	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	13
	Nervous		62	..	36	11	6	17	1	2	8	15	12	7	4	8	9	41
	Circulatory		70	36	34	2	..	2	1	3	9	25	21	9	6	2	9	53
	Respiratory		80	38	42	13	7	20	2	..	5	10	17	26	7	1	6	66
	Digestive		41	17	24	18	3	21	2	3	4	7	3	1	..	2	5	34
	Urinary		22	12	10	..	..	..	..	..	5	6	5	6	1	6	5	11
	Generative		2	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Locomotory		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..
IV. Develop mental	Integumentary		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Develop mental	Premature Birth Low Vitality and Congenital Defects		47	29	18	47	..	47	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	5	41
Old Age			40	18	22	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	6	33	5	2	6	27
V. violence			19	13	6	6	..	6	..	2	3	3	3	2	..	..	1	18
VI. All other Diseases			2	2	..	1	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1
Totals			567	286	281	146	44	190	18	23	59	105	81	91	26	35	60	446

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Table: TABLE III.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.