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Wandsworth 1898

[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.

streatham.				Total Deaths from each Class of Disease.	Sex.		Age.									Social Position.
population 1 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 C lass.	Industrial and Labouring Classes.
Estimated Population, 1898			60,459
causes of death.
I. ZYMOTIC.	Small Pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Scarlet Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	....	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Diphtheria			6	3	3	..	1	1	4	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	2	3
	Membranous Croup			6	3	3	..	1	1	4	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	2	3
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			3	2	1	..	..	..	..	2	..	i	..	..	..	..	1	2
	Continued Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Relapsing Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Puerperal Fever			1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Cholera			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Erysipelas			3	1	2	1	..	1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	l
	Measles			26	17	9	8	16	24	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	25
	Whooping Cough			19	11	8	11	8	19	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	18
	Influenza			16	8	8	1	1	2	..	1	2	6	2	3	..	2	3	11
	Diarrhoea & Dysentery			29	19	10	23	1	24	..	1	1	1	2	..	..	4	4	21
	Hydrophobia			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Other Zymotic Diseases			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Totals of Zymotic Class			103	61	42	44	27	71	7	4	4	10	4	3	..	7	13	83
II.Constitutional.	Gout			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Rheumatism			1	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	I
	Cancer & other Tumours			41	12	29	..	..	..	1	1	5	16	10	8	3	4	12	22
	Other Constitutional Diseases			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Tubercular.	Phthisis		58	33	25	3	3	6	1	13	?1	14	3	..	1	3	11	43
	Tubercular.	Other Tubercular ( Diseases		17	9	8	6	9	15	2	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	7	9
Ill Local.	Nervous			68	30	38	15	19,	27	1	2	5	13	9	11	2	3	14	49
	Circulatory			69	38	31	..	1	1	4	4	12	19	12	17	1	11	7	50
	Respiratory			158	100	58	20	15	36	4	1	8	30	44	36	2	15	15	126
	Digestive			38	18	20	19	1	20	1	1	4	7	3	2	2	5	5	26
	Urinary			27	19	8	1	..	1	..	1	2	11	6	6	..	2	3	22
	Generative.			1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Locomotory			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Integumentary			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
IV. Developmental.	Premature Birth Low Vitality and Congenital Defects			51	23	28	51	..	51	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	8	42
V.	Old Age			66	24	32	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	7	47	1	6	9	40
VI.	Violence..			18	11	7	4	1	5	4	1	5	1	2	..	..	..	1	17
	All other Diseases			2	1	1	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	1
Totals				708	379	329	163	69	232	27	28	68	123	100	130	13	58	106	531

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Table: TABLE III.STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.