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St Mary (Battersea) 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea]

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Table: TABLE II.The following table shows the cause of all deaths, classified according to age, sex and social position.

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TABLE II.

The following table shows the cause of all deaths, classified according to age, sex and social position.

Population (Census) 1881, 52,587 Official Population in middle of June, 1889, 76,189				Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. &c., in the Sub-District.	Sex.		Age.								Social Position
					Males.	Females.	Under1 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 80 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.					Males.	Females.	Under1 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 80 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.
I, Zymotic.	Small-pox			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Measles			56	29	27	13	43	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..5	51
	Scarlet Fever			3	2	1	..	..	2	..	1	..		..	..	1	1	1
	Typhus Fever			..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric Fever			..	..		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Puerparal Fever			5	..	5	..	..	..	..	5	..	..	..	..	..	..	5
	Diphtheria			10	5	4	1	7	1	..		..	..	..	..	1	1	8
	Whooping Cough			55	30	25	23	32	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	4	50
	Erysipelas			2	2	..	2	..		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..
	Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Cholera			74	35	39	55	14	1	..	1	..	3	..	1	..	9	64
	Other Zymotic Diseases			2	2	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	....	..	..	1	1
Totals of Zymotic Class				217	112	105	95	96	5	..	11	2	5	..	1	3	22	191
II. Constitutional.	Gout and Rheumatism			9	3	6	..	..	....	..	2	4	3	..	..	1	1	7
	Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional			30	6	24	..	..	..	..	2	11	17	..	3	..	5	22
	Diseases			15	6	9	..	..	..	..	3	5	6	..	2	..	2	11
	II contitutional.	Phthisis 99			49	50	1	3	1	10	40	3 3	5	..	1	1	18	79
		Tabes Mesa		45	23	22	34	6	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	1	2	42
		Hydrocephalus		23	17	6	12	9	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	22
		Scrofula		3	1	2	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3
Ill Local.	Nervous			112	60	52	48	15	1	..	3	10	31	3	2	3	10	97
	Circulatory			62	32	30	..	1	1	..	7	23	26	2	1	1	11	49
	Respiratory			211	99	112	59	14	5	..	7	35	43	6	8	3	21	179
	Digestive			60	25	35	21	3	..	..	6	14	11	..	1	2	9	48
	Urinary			27	15	12	..	..	..	..	5	11	11	..	2	3	5	17
	Generative			8	..	8	..	..	..	..	5	2	..	..	..	2	1	5
	Locomotory			3	3	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	2	1
	Integumentary			6	2	4	3	1	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	6
IV.Developmental.	Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects			98	51	47	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	6	89
IV.Developmental.	Old Age			29	2	27	..	..	..	..	..	..	14	15	3	..	5	21
V.	Violence			27	17	10	14	4	..	1	2	4	2	..	..	....	..	27
VI.	Illdefined		Illdefined	4	1	3	3	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	4
Not Specified.			Not Specified		..	..	..	....	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals				1088	524	504	389	194	18	28	100	155	178	26	25	22	121	920