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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

Fulham 1905

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1905

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Table: TABLE VII. (G) INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. Deaths from stated causes in weeks and months under 1 Year of Age. SANDS END WARD.

TABLE VII. (G) INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. Deaths from stated causes in weeks and months under 1 Year of Age. SANDS END WARD.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 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 One Year.
All Causes{Certified29645441311131288101016133161
{Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious diseases,
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...............1........................113
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough.................................1122...6
Diarrhœal diseases—..
Diarrhœa, all forms......2...22346543161...37
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)..................1...............1.........2
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh....................................111...3
Wasting diseases—
Premature Birth1422119...11........................21
Congenital Defects52......7..................12.........10
Injury at Birth1.............................................1
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus4......1534111..................15
Tuberculous diseases—±I
Tuberculous Meningitis...............1......1...1......2......5
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...1......1......1......112...1...7
Erysipelas...............1..............................1
Syphilis1.........1.................................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not tuberculous)...........................1............1...2
Convulsions...1...12...111............1......6
Bronchitis.........115111...11...1......12
Laryngitis...................................................
uttiviigiuia Pneumonia.....................21113226119
Suffocation, overlaying........................1......1...1......2
Other Causes4......15......2.....................18
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Births in the year—Legitimate, 916; illegitimate, 40.
Population—28,369.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages - 426.
(Estimated to middle of 1905.)