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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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than in the first, which must be attributed to the evils of
nursing out. 29 of the deaths of illegitimate children, or one
third of the total number,were ascribed to diarrhoea, representing
a mortality of 111 deaths to every 1,000 births, compared with
a mortality of 3O per 1,000 among legitimate infants.

Table: TABLE VIII. MORTALITY OF ILLEGITIMATE INFANTS. Deaths from stated causes in weeks and months under 1 Year of Age.

TABLE VIII. MORTALITY OF ILLEGITIMATE INFANTS. Deaths from stated causes in weeks and months under 1 Year of Age.

CAUSE OF DEATHUnder I Week.1—2 Weeks.2—3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under I 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—II Months.11—12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
Common Infectious disease
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles....................................1...1...2
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria : Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............11...11...1.........16
Diarrhoeal diseases—.JU
Diarrhoea, all forms......1...168144...2...12...29
Enteritis {not Tuberculous).....................1........................1
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh........................1.....................1
Wasting diseases
Premature Birth1...113.................................3
Congenital Defects1.........1............1..................2
Injury at Birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus22...151311...1...............12
Tuberculous diseases—!I
Tuberculous Meningitis.................................1............1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............1..............................1
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis1.........131...1.....................6
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)........................11..................2
Convulsions...................................................
Bronchitis..................1...........................1
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia.....................12...13......1...8
Suffocation, overlaying4........................1..................1
Other Causes4......151...11.....................8
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