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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: TABLE XXII.(TABLE5.) Borough of Wandsworth—Streatham Sub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year1907.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE XXII.(TABLE5.) Borough of Wandsworth—Streatham Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year1907.

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

Cause of Death.Under 1 Week.Weeks.2-3 Weeks.Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1—2 Months.Months.3—4 Months.4—5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 M onths.10—II Months.11—12 Months|Total Deaths under i Year.
^11 Causes- Certified37986601516139116841139104
Uncertified................................................i......
Common Infectious Diseases— Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup.........................................................
Whooping Cough...............121I12312......14
Diarrhoeal Diseases— Diarrhoea, all forms.....................212......1.........6
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...1113...1211..................6
Gastritis, Gastro-Intesti-nal Catarrh..................1...I.....................9
Wasting Diseases- Premature Birth232333121......2.....................
Congenital Defects521...8...2...........................36
Injury at Birth1.........1....................................
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation........................1.....................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus521196321...1......2...125
Tuberculous Diseases — Tuberculous Meningitis...........................1.....................1
Tuberculous Peritonitis : Tabes Mesenterica...........................1..................1
Other Tuberculous Dis eases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis......1.......................................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...............11111.........21...8
Convulsions...11......21111.........21...8
Bronchitis...1.........33...I21211119
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......................3......2313...113
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other Causes3......14...1..................1...39
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District (or Sub-Division) of Streatham.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1907), 98,180.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,824; illegitimate, 47.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 151 ; illegitimate infants, 13.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 926.