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Wandsworth 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

TABLE XVIII.(TABLE5.)

Borough of Wandsworth—Clapham Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the Year1905.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

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 1 Year.
All Causes— Certified40131026501391065914784159
Uncertified........................1.....................1
Common Infectious Diseases— Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..........................................213
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria : Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............11......2......1.........5
Diarrhœal Diseases— Diarrhœa, all forms...1......1...231321231120
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)..................1...1...1...............3
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh..................1............1............2
Wasting Diseases — Premature Birth2131...25......1........................27
Congenital Defects822...1211...1.....................15
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast Milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus336...1243111......1......124
Tuberculous Diseases — Tuberculous Meningitis Tuberculous Peritonitis:....................................111...3
Tabes Mesenterica...............1..............................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases.....................11.....................2
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...1...1....................................2
Rickets.................................1...1......2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................1...............1......2
Convulsions31...15...1...1...............1...8
Bronchitis...1......11...12.........11......8
Laryngitis............1.................................1
Pneumonia...1......1...112...156...1...18
Suffocation, overlaying2.........2...1...........................3
Other Causes3.........3...1...1...112...2...11
40131026591391165914784160

District (or Sub-Division) of Clapham.
Population (estimated to middle of 1905), 63,900.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,3931 illegitimate, 19.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 686.