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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 XXIV.
(Table 5.)

Table: Borough of Wandsworth—Southfield Sub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year1906.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Borough of Wandsworth—Southfield 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.3—4 Weeks.total under 1 Monih.1—2 Months.2—3 Months.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—
Certified3612425413121112129910575159
Uncertified2.........2.................................2
Common Infectious Diseases —
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..........................................1...1
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup.........11.................................1
Whooping Cough.............................................11
Diarrhœal Diseases-
Diarrhoea. all forms...1......146351455...2440
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastroenteritis..................1115...1......1...10
Gastritis, Gastro-Intesti nal Catarrh.....................1........................1
Wasting Diseases—
Premature Birth182......20...21........................23
Congenital Defects31......4............1..................5
Injury at Birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus95211752231.........1......31
Tuberculous Diseases —
Tuberculous Meningitis..................1...............11......3
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..............................1.........1...2
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis..............................1......1......2
Rickets...........................1..................1
Meningitis (not Tubercu- lous)...........................1.........1......2
Convulsions23......5............11...............7
Bronchitis1.........13............11...1......9
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......1...11...221I14.........13
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other Causes3...1...4......1.........1......1...7
3812415613121112129910575161

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District (or Sub-Division) of Southfield.
Population (estimated to middle of 1906), 54,910.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,325; illegitimate, 33.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 145 ; illegitimate infants, 16.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 678.