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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wimbledon 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Infant Mortality during the year 1926.
(Deaths from stated causes at various ages under One Year of Age.)
| Causes of Death. | Under 1 week. | 1-2 Weeks. | 2-3 Weeks. | 3-4 Weeks. | Total under 4 weeks. | 1-3 Months. | 3-6 Months. | 6-9 Months. | 9-12 Months. | Total Deaths under One Year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Pneumonia (all forms) | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| Coma, Convulsions & Acute Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Congenital Atelectasis & Convulsions | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Premature Birth | 5 | 1 | - | - | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | 7 |
| Congenital Debility & Exhaustion | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Marasmus, Pneumonia & Cardiac Failure | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Syncope, Haemorrhage & want of attention at Birth | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Asphyxia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | — | — | — | 1 |
| Bronchial Obstruction (Mucus) | 1 | — | - | — | 1 | - | — | — | — | 1 |
| Marasmus, Capillary Bronchitis Ileo Colitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Dermatitis, Multiple Pyaemic Abscesses | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Total | 10 | 1 | — | 1 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 27 |
Poor Law Relief.—The following information has been
furnished by the Clerk of the Kingston Union respecting Poor
Law Relief in this District:—
Amount paid in Out-door Relief in 1926 £13,960 8s. 8d.
Average weekly number of persons in
receipt of relief 579
Number of persons admitted to the Guardians'
Institution from Wimbledon area 470
General Provision of Health Services in the Area.
(a) Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local
Authority or by the County Council:—
(1) Tuberculosis—Crooksbury Sanatorium, under
the Surrey County Council.
(2) Maternity—None.
(3) Children—see Hospitals for area; (b).
(4) Fevers—Isolation Hospital, Gap Road, Wimbledon
Borough Council, 105 beds.
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