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Wandsworth 1908

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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Table: TABLE XX.(TABLE5.)Borough of W andsworth—ClaphamSub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year 1 908.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE XX.(TABLE5.)

Borough of W andsworth—ClaphamSub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year 1 908.

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

Cause of Death.Under 1 Week.1—2 Weeks.2—3 Weeks3 -4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1 -2 Months.2—3 Weeks.3—4 Weeks..4—5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10—11 Months.11— 2 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
-All Causes— Certified2468648184865556687136
Uncertified..........................................
Common Infectious.......................................
Diseases— Small-pox.............................................
Chicken-pox.............................................
Measles.....................1......1...227
Scarlet Fever.............................................
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup..........................................1
Whooping Cough..............................1...113
Diarrhoeal Diseases— Diarrhoea, all forms.........1111......421......1...12
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis..................3...1...111.........8
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh ••..................3........................14
Wasting Diseases-Premature Birth1943329...............1...............31
Congenital Defects41...162..............................8
Injury at Birth................................................
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2...3...65332.....................19
Tuberculous Diseases — Tuberculous Meningitis1.........1...........................1...2
Tuberculous Peritonitis:................................................
Tabes Mesenterica........................1............1......2
Other Tuberculous Diseases....................................1.........1
Erysipelas.....................1........................1
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets................................................1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)......1............1........................2
Convulsions...1......11.........1..................3
Bronchitis......1...12......1...1...2.........9
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............312.....................315
Suffocation, overlying.............................................1
•OtherXauses2.........22...............1............5
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District (or Sub-Division) of Clapham.
Population (estimated to the middle ot 1908), 68,500.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,349 ; illegitimate, 34.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 123 ; illegitimate infants, 13.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 723.