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Wandsworth 1907

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

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Table: TABLE XXIV.(Table5)Borough ofWandsworth—SouthfieldSub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year1907.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE XXIV.(Table5)Borough ofWandsworth—SouthfieldSub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year1907.

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

Cause of Death.U nder 1 week.1- 2 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 0 Months.9— 10 Months.10—11 Months.11—12 Months.Total Deaths 1 under i Year.
All Causes— Certified2510103481310128624103108134
Uncerified...................................................
C om m on Infectious Disea ses— Smal 1-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.............................................11
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............1..................2...126
Diarrhceal Diseases— Diarrhoea, all forms..................12...1..................4
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis. Gastro-enteritis......2...21...212......3...2...13
Gastritis, Gastro intestinal Catarrh...................................................
Wasting Diseases— Premature Birth11331182..............................20
Congenital Defects41......5.................................5
Injury at Birthi.........1.................................1
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus45......9423211............224
Tuberculous Diseases-Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis : Tabes Mesenterica.....................1.........1............2
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas........................1.....................i
Syphilis.........111..............................2
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous...................................................
Convulsions2...1...3...1.....................1...5
Bronchitis1111433211...211...119
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia..................32311...326223
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other Causes2...3...51...............i1.........8
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District (or Sub-Division) of Southfieid.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1907), 56,438.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1283 ; illegitimate, 32.
Deaths in the year of— legitimate infants, 126 ; illegitimate infants, 9.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 630.