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Fulham 1905

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

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

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

CAUSE OF DEATHUnder 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 CausesCertified8...1...961123...2113130
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious diseases
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...............1.....................11...3
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup..........................................114
Whooping Cough........................11............114
Diarrhoeal diseases—I.ILL
Diarrhoea, all forms...............11......2..................4
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)....................................1.........1
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...................................................
Wasting diseases—L.
Prematura Birth4...1...5.................................5
Congenital Defects...................................................
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2.........22...1........................5
Tuberculous diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenteric*...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis........................1.....................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions1.........1.................................1
Bronchitis..................................1......1...2
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia.................................1............1
Suffocation, overlaying...................................................
Other Causes...............2..............................2
8...1...961123...2113130

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Births in the year—Legitimate, 272; illegitimate, 11.
Population—l3,l75.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages - 181.
(Estimated to middle of 1905.)
B 1