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Wandsworth 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

TABLE XXI.(TABLE 5.)Borough of Wandsworth—Putney Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year1907.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Cause of Death.11nder 1 Week.1- 2 Weeks.2—3 weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.I- -2 Months.2-3 Months.3-4 Months.4—5 Months5—6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months8-9 Months9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11 -12 Months.Total Deaths under i Year.
All Causes-Certified11331184443323345154
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases— Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox......................................
Measlefc..........1....1......2116
Scarlet Fever......................................
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup........................................
Whooping Cough............1................2..3
Diarrhceal Diseases — Diarrhoea, all forms..........12111............6
Enteritis, Muco-enteritfs, Gastro-enteritis........................1..1..2
Gastritis, Gastro-Intesti-nal Catarrh..........................................
Wasting Diseases-Premature Birth711..9..........................9
Congenital Defects..1....1........................1
Injury at Birth..1....1..........................1
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation..............................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1......1..12................4
Tuberculous Diseases-Tuberculous Meningitis....................1............1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica....................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases................................
Erysipelas.............................
Syphilis....................1..........1
Rickets..............................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................1..1........2
Convulsions..............................1......I
Bronchitis......11..........11....3
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia....1..1..112....11119
Suffocation, overlying................................
Other Causes3...1..41.....................5
11331184443323345154

District (or Sub-Division) of Putney.
Population (estimated to middle of 1907), 30,060.
Births in the year—legitimate, 487; illegitimate, 14.'
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 51 ; illegitimate infants, 3.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 311.
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