Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea]
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STATISTICS OF MORTALITY,—A.
Battersea Whole Parish. Population (Census) 1881, 107,262 Official Population in middle of June, 1889, 154,595 | Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District. | Sex. | Age. | Social Position | ||||||||||||||
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Males. | Females. | Under 1 year. | From 1 to 5 years. | From 5 to 10 years. | From 10 to 20 years. | At 20 and under 40 years of age. | At 40 and under 60 years of age. | At 60 and under bo years of age. | 80 years and upwards. | Nobility and Gentry. | Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c. | Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. | Industrial and Labouring Classes. | |||||
CAUSES OF DEATH. | ||||||||||||||||||
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I. Zymotic. | 104 | 59 | 45 | 27 | 73 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | 96 | |||
Scarlet Fever | 12 | 4 | 8 | .. | 8 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 8 | |||
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
Enteric Fever | 15 | 10 | 5 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 15 | |||
Puerperal Fever | 12 | .. | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 12 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||||
Diphtheria | 21 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 14 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 16 | |||
Whooping Cough | 81 | 41 | 40 | 33 | 16 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 8 | 71 | |||
Erysipelas | 4 | 4 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | |||
Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Cholera | 112 | 56 | 56 | 85 | 21 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 1 | 1 | 11 | 99 | |||
Other Zymotic Diseases | 6 | 5 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | |||
Totals of Zymotic Class | 366 | 190 | 176 | 151 | 163 | 15 | 3 | 24 | 3 | 7 | .. | 1 | 7 | 37 | 321 | |||
II. constiutu tional. | Gout and Rheumatism | 24 | 12 | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 7 | 9 | 7 | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | 19 | ||
Cancer & other Tumours | 59 | 13 | 46 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 26 | 31 | .. | 3 | 1 | 7 | 48 | |||
Other Constitutional | 24 | 11 | 13 | 7 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | .. | 2 | .. | 9 | 20 | |||
Phthisis | 241 | 128 | 113 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 10S | 85 | 21 | .. | 1 | 5 | 32 | 203 | |||
Tabes Mesa | 107 | 58 | 49 | 78 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 8 | 98 | |||
Hydrocephalus | 42 | 29 | 13 | 14 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 40 | |||
Scrofula | 4 | 2 | 2.. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | ||||
III. Local. | Nervous | 246 | 120 | 126 | 73 | 32 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 37 | 68 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 215 | ||
Circulatory | 150 | 68 | 82 | .. | 3 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 53 | 66 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 127 | |||
Respiratory | 424 | 206 | 218 | 115 | 101 | 11 | 2 | 19 | 69 | 96 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 45 | 360 | |||
Digestive | 110 | 43 | 67 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 30 | 30 | .. | 2 | 5 | 18 | 85 | |||
Urinary | 45 | 24 | 21 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 8 | 19 | 10 | .. | 2 | 3 | 6 | 34 | |||
Generative | 16 | .. | 16 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 12 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | 12 | |||
Locomotory | 7 | 6 | 1 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 5 | |||
Integumentary | 9 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | |||||
IV. Developmental. | Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects | 209 | 116 | 93 | 209 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 14 | 191 | ||
Old Age | 88 | 25 | 63 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 51 | 37 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 70 | |||
V. Violence | 65 | 38 | 27 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 3 | .. | 2 | 3 | 60 | |||
VI. Illdefined and Not Specified. | Illdefined | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | ||
Not Specified | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
Totals | 2240 | 1093 | 1147 | 713 | 365 | 49 | 55 | 223 | 352 | 411 | 62 | 30 | 54 | 231 | 1925 |