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Report of the Medical Officer of Health
The Tables which follow are inserted at the request of the
Local Government Board and show in detail the deaths of infants
under one year arranged in monthly age periods, and from
certain diseases
Table XIX shows the deaths in the whole Borough, and the
six following Tables the deaths in each registration sub-district
In Table XIX the total number of births do not correspond
with the number in previous Tables, as the births in the Workhouse
are in this Table allocated to their respective sub-districts
and other places The total births, legitimate and illegitimate,
were 6,940, and the deaths 715
There was only one death from Notifiable Infectious diseases,
viz :—one from Diphtheria, this occurring in Springfield sub-
district From Measles 20 deaths occurred, 48 from Whooping
Cough, 104 from Diarrhceal diseases, 127 from Premature birth,
145 from Congenital defects or diseases, 19 from Tuberculous
diseases, 158 from diseases of the Respiratory Organs, 10 from
simple Meningitis, six from Suffocation and Overlaying, and 77
from other causes
Compared with 1906, there was a decrease in the number of
deaths from the Notifiable diseases, Diarrhceal diseases, Congenital
defects or diseases, Tuberculous diseases, Meningitis and other
causes, and an increase in the number of deaths from Measles,
Whooping Cough, Premature birth, and Respiratory diseases
In all the deaths, with one exception in Clapham, the cause of
death was certified by a medical man or a coroner after inquest
33 7 Per cent, of the deaths occurred in the first month, compared
with 32.03 per cent, in 1906, and 34.2 per cent, in 1905;
53 per cent, in the first three months, compared with 51'7 per
cent , and 52.4 per cent ; and 73 per cent, in the first six months,
compared with 72 6 per cent, and 71.8 per cent
The Table also shows that 272 or 38 per cent, of the deaths
occurred from wasting diseases, and that 179 or 62.1 per cent,
occurred under one month