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Wandsworth 1906

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

TABLE XXII.(Table 5)

Borough of Wandsworth—Streatham 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 Week.1—2 Weeks.2—3 Weeks.Weeks.Lotal under 1 Month.1—2 Months.Months.3—4 Months.Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months. 8-0 Months9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths 1 Under 1 Year 1
All Causes-
Certified361013I47223201312161294469200
Uncertified...........................1..................1
Common Infectious Diseases—
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................1...1...125
Scarlet Fever...........................1..................1
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough............1...1...11...4......1110
Diarrhceal Diseases—
Diarrhoea, all forms...12254424513121133
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...1113854162.........1...30
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh.........11......11...1...............4
Wasting Diseases —
Premature Birth222222831...........................32
Congenital Defects52I191...1........................11
Injury at Birth1.............................................1
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus74i113431........................21
Tuberculous Diseases —
Tuberculous Meningitis......1...11......1......1............4
Tuberculous Peritonitis Tabes Mesenterica..................2...........................2
Other Tuberculous Dis eases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis.........11......2........................3
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tubercu lous)...............1......2............1...15
Convulsions......325...1...2...3...............12
Bronchitis...............111...1..................6
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......112...1j......3..................
Suffocation, overlying................................................9
Other Causes1......12...1......3...1211112
361012147223201312171294469201

District (or Sl b-Division) of Streathan.
Population (estimated to middle of 1906), 94,750.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,719 ; illegitimate, 48.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 179 ; illegitimate infants, 22.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 909.