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Wandsworth 1906

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

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Table: Report of the Medical Officer of Health.37TABLE XXI.(Table5.)Borough of Wandsworth—Putney Sub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year1906.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health.37

TABLE XXI.(Table5.)

Borough of Wandsworth—Putney Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year1906.

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

Cause of Death.Under 1 Week1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3- 4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1—2 Months.Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months.0-7 Months.7-8 MonthsMonths.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths 1 under 1 Year.
All Causes—
Certified103231867122361133466
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases —
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..........................................123
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough.......................................1......1
DiarrhoealDiseases —
Diarrhoea, all forms.........11221......41111...14
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastroenteritis...............I...4......1...............6
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...................................................
Wasting Diseases-
Premature Birth522...9.................................9
Congenital Defects1.............................................1
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast Milk Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1.........1I2111..................7
Tuberculous Diseases —
Tuberculous Meningitis........................1..................12
Tuberculous Peritonitis Tabrs Mesenterica..............................1...............1
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................1...2...............14
Convulsions...1......1I...3........................5
Bronchitis.........11I...1..................1...4
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia1......12...1..................1......4
Suffocation, overlying..................1...........................1
Other Causes1.........1...11........................3
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District (or Sub-Division) of Putney.
Population (estimated to middle of 1906). 29,500.
Births in the year—legitimate, 505 ; il'egitimate, 8.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 61 ; illegitimate infants, 5.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 315.
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