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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.
Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.
| Cause of Death. | Under 1 Week. | 1—2 Weeks. | Weeks. | Weeks. | Total under 1 Month. | 1—2 Months. | 2—3 Months. | 3—4 Months. | 4—5 Months. | 5—6 Months. | 6-7 Months. | 7-8 Months. | 8—9 Months. | 9—10 Months. | 10—11 Months. | 11—12 Months. | Total Deaths under i Year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes- Certified | 12 | 8 | 4 | 25 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 98 | |
| Uncertified | |||||||||||||||||
| ^Common Infectious Diseases— Small-pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Chicken-pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Measles | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | |||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria: Mem. Croup | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| -Diarrhoeal Diseases — Diarrhoea, all forms | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |||||||||
| Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 'Wasting Diseases — Premature Birth | 9 | 2 | i | 12 | 1 | 13 | |||||||||||
| Congenital Detects | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | |||||||||||||||||
| Want of Breast Milk, Starvation | |||||||||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 16 | |||||||
| Tuberculous Diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis Tabes Mesenterica | |||||||||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | |||||||||||||||||
| Syphilis | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Rickets | |||||||||||||||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | |||||||||||||||||
| Convulsions | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | |||||||||
| Laryngitis | |||||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 2 | 3 | 2 | 15 | |||||||||||||
| -Suffocation, overlying | |||||||||||||||||
| Other Causes | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | 8 | 4 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 98 |
District (or Sub-Division) of Springfield.
Fopul&tion (estimated to middle of 1907), 37,362.
Births in the year—legitimate. 893; illegitimate, 28.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, £9; illegitimate infants, 9.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 440.