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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 III.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

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Table III.

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.

WANDSWORTH.				Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position.
Population (Census), 1896			58,101		Males.	Females	Under 1 year.	From 1 to 5 years.	From 5 to 15 years.	From 15 to 25 years.	From 25 and under 45 years	From 45 and under 65 years	From 65 and under 75 years.	75 and upwards.	Nobility and Gentry.	Professional Class. Merchants. Bankers, Ac.	Middle and Trading Class. Shopmen. Clerks. Ac.	I ndustrial and Labouring
Estimated Population in middle of 1597			61,251.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
I. Zymotic.	Small Pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Scarlet Fever			6	6	1	..	2	4	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diphtheria			30	18	12	..	13	14	..	1	..	1	1	..	3	8	1
	Membranous Croup			1	..	1	1	..	..	....	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			3	1	..	..	..	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	2	..
	Continued Fever			1	..	1	..	1	..	..	..		..	..	..	..	..	..
	Relapsing Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Puerperal Fever			4	..	4	..	..	..	1	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Cholera			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Erysipelas			1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles			4	2	2	..	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	..
	Whooping Cough			12	5	7	7	6	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	1
	Influenza			18	4	14	..	..	..	..	1	8	5	4	1	..	9	..
	Diarrhoea & Dysentery			48	24	24	40	6	..	1	1	..	..	1	2	2	8	3
	Hydrophobia			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Other Zymotic Diseases			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals of Zymotic Class				128	69	69	48	29	20	3	7	9	6	6	3	6	30	6
ii. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatit-m			10	3	7	..	1	..	3	1	2	2	1		3	..	..
	Cancer & other Tumour			41	13	31	..	..	..	..	0	20	11	8	4	1	11	..
	Otber Constitutional Diseases			3	1	2	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Tubercular	Phthisis		67	35	32	1	1	7	1	29	21	..	1	1	5	17	..
	Tubercular	Other Tubercular Diseases		27	12	15	9	11	6	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	7	..
III. Local.	Nervous			114	74	40	9	6	3	3	36	36	12	11	4	4	20	..
	Circulatory			78	2-5	63	1	1	2	3	11	28	19	13	6	..	33
				117	65	52	40	22	1	2	4	18	22	8	2	3	30
	Digestive			68	26	33	30	3	..	3	6	12	3	2	3	6	17
	Urinary			24	13	11	1	1	..	..	4	13	1	4	..	..	9
	Generative			0	1	4	..	..	..	..	3	..	1	1	..	1	1
	Locomotor			2	2	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	1		..		..
	Integumentary			2	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth and Low Vitality			70	31	39	70	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	8	9
	Congenital Defects ..			10	5	6	10	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2
	Old Age			56	24	32	••	..	..	..	..	1	16	39	6	3	15
v.	Violence			22	13	9	8	2	2	2	4	2	1	1	1	..	..	..
VI. Ill-defined ( III-defined)				1	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
& not Specified (Not specifier)				..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals				838	402	136	232	77	42	26	108	162	96	95	29	48	204