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Kingston upon Thames 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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INFANTILE MORTALITY IN SURREY.
| 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston | 111 | 118 | 99 | 151 | 91 | ||||
| Wimbledon | 134 | 134 | 112 | 153 | 80 | ||||
| Barnes | 78 | 57 | 76 | 83 | 72 | ||||
| Reigate | 61 | 52 | 49 | 49 | 45 | ||||
| Richmond | 57 | 59 | 57 | 83 | 61 | ||||
| Woking | 44 | 38 | 44 | 52 | 52 | ||||
| Sutton | 43 | 40 | 32 | 35 | 34 | ||||
| Esher | 28 | 21 | 23 | 27 | 17 | ||||
| Surbiton | 24 | 34 | 36 | 41 | 18 | ||||
| Maiden | 18 | 18 | 15 | 27 | 15 | ||||
| Weybridge | 14 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 11 | ||||
| No. of persons per inhabited house | No. of persons engaged in drink trade, (approximate.) | No. of tenements of less than five rooms. | No. of Infants under one year of age in proportion to population. | ||||||
| Kingston | 5.2 | 230 | 1798 | 24 | |||||
| Wimbledon | 5.5 | 225 | 2605 | 23 | |||||
| Barnes | 5.2 | 107 | 1295 | 22 | |||||
| Reigate | 5.3 | 153 | 1371 | 19 | |||||
| Richmond | 5.2 | 203 | 2249 | 18 | |||||
| Woking | 5.7 | 76 | 702 | 24 | |||||
| Sutton | 5.7 | 81 | 435 | 19 | |||||
| Esher | 4.7 | 48 | 566 | 19 | |||||
| Surbiton | 5.2 | 92 | 572 | 17 | |||||
| Maiden | 4.9 | 29 | 310 | 21 | |||||
| Weybridge | 4.8 | 32 | 188 | 20 | |||||
CONSUMPTION AND TUBERCULOSIS.
35 deaths from consumption and 17 from tuberculosis
are recorded. This compares with 40 and 26 the
average for 1901-05 for this Borough, but the average for
1899-1903 England and Wales was 1,274, only reduced to
1,236 for 1904. The number of deaths from tuberculosis
was fewer by 3,526 in 1904 than in the preceding decennium
corrected for population. This shows that the newer methods
of prevention and cure are having a marked effect upon this
disease, and should encourage us to do more.
On March 10th, 1906, the L.G.B. for Scotland issued a
circular in which it is stated that "pulmonary phthisis (that
is, tuberculosis of the lungs, or consumption) is an infectious
disease within the meaning of the Public Health Act, 1897
(Scotland) .... the obligation resting on the local authority
to deal with and control infectious disease extends to
pulmonary phthisis."