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Fulham 1908

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1908

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Table: TABLE X. INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908.

TABLE X. INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.Deaths under One year belonging to Localities.Deaths under One year in previous years.
CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1—2 Weeks2—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.Barons Court Ward.Lillie Ward.Walham Ward.Margravine Ward.Munster Ward.Hurlingham Ward.Sands End Ward.Town Ward.Total Deaths under 1 year, 1907.Total Deaths under 1 year, 1906.Total Deaths under 1 year, 1905.
All CausesCertified1112228151766242412834302832192626544187260811612011418564647691
Uncertified1.........1.................................1........1......121
Common Infectious diseases
Small-pox.........................................................................
Chicken-pox.........................................................................
Measles...........................11232281911..3518..101025
Scarlet Fever...................................................................11..
Diphtheria : Croup.........11...............1............13........2..1..34..
Whooping Cough...............1...211222...1214..311414..411136
Cerebro-spinal Fever...........................1..................1......1..............
Diarrhœal diseases—
Diarrhœa, all forms......4378111 111912666559736142333115269192165
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis......1...112412222......11812315..51212416
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh......1...1......11......2............5....21....2..81210
Wasting diseases— Premature Birth65694841 151........................10131311142562181009497
Congenital Defects2452...314...112......1.........4025741723..323919
Injury at Birth8.........8.................................8......241..18114
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation1.........1......1........................2......11......231
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus7545219421321...2......453123312471574769
Tuberculous diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis..................1......1...12...3...81..213..1..41018
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...............2...11...11............6..2....1..3..331
Other Tuberculous diseases..................2311...12......111..311213..171213
Other Causes—
Erysipelas..............................1...............1............1....11
Syphilis2...215421121...............1615153..1..8918
Rickets.......................................1...12••......2......32..
Meningitis (not Tuber-culous)1.........1...12......1...1...2...8..4121......71010
Convulsions121...4...1............2......1210..1124..3172025
Bronchitis11......2622...1...241...121..2125110..501947
Laryngitis........................................................................
Pneumonia...1315675863687103743710824120..675259
Suffocation, overlying1.........1431122...............14..3134111151813
Other Accidents...1......11...1..................1...4....1..2..1..435
Other Causes111...3512...21...1...1117..3..53..43394238
1122228151976242412834302832192626545187260811622011418565649692

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Births registered in Fulham in the year—Legitimate, 4477; Illegitimate, 230.
Deaths in the year of—Legitimate infants, 487; Illegitimate infants, 58.
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Population—159,850 (estimated to middle of 1908).
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages—2,157.
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