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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: TABLE XX.(Table 5.)Borough of Wandsworth—Streatham Sub-District.Infantile Mortality during the Year1905.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE XX.(Table 5.)

Borough of Wandsworth—Streatham 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.5-6Months.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-Certified331111863201691991069543173
Uncertified1.........1..............................12
Common Infectious Diseases— Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles........................1.........1...1...3
Scarlet Fever.......................................1......1
Diphtheria: Croup...............1..............................1
Whooping Cough...............1...11...1...1.........5
Diarrhœal Diseases— Diarrhœa, all forms..................3162...23...1119
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)...112422...23...21.........16
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh..................2.........1...............3
Wasting Diseases— Premature Birth20472334..............................37
Congenital Defects3.........311...........................5
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast Milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus64...21244113...............126
Tuberculous Diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis...............1............1............13
Tuberculous Peritonitis Tabes Mesenterica..................1...........................1
Other Tuberculous Dis eases..............................1...............1
Erysipelas..................1...........................1
Syphilis........................1.........1.........2
Rickets..............................1...............1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).................................1......2...3
Convulsions3...2...5.........3...1...............9
Bronchitis...1......2212......1...............8
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............212312...23...117
Suffocation, overlaying...................................................
Other Causes211152...21...11...1......13
341111864201691991069544175

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District (or Sub-Division) of Streatham.
Population (estimated to middle of 1905), 88,580.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,726; illegitimate, 42.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 886.