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Wandsworth 1907

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE XXIII.(Table 5.) Borough of Wandsworth—Tooting Sub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year1907.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE XXIII.(Table 5.) Borough of Wandsworth—Tooting Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year1907.

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

Cause of Death.Under 1 Week.1 - 2 Weeks.2-3 WeeksWeeks.Total under 1 Month.1 -2 Months.2—3 Months.3 4 Months.4—5 Months.5-6 Months.6 7 Months.7- 8 Months.Months.9—10 Months.10—II Months.11—12 Months.Total Deaths 1 under i Year.
All Causes— Certified317965316688107811645142
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases — Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...............1............1...111...5
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria : Mem. Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough.........11......2......i1321...11
Diarrhceal Diseases — Diarrhoea, all forms...1......11312515211225
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis......213............2......111...8
Gastritis, Gastro-Intesti-nal Catarrh.........11.................................1
Wasting Diseases -Premature Birth172212211......1..................25
Congenital Defects711...91..............................1 1
Injury at Birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...............1..............................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus412185......21...2............18
Tuberculous Diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis.......1...1......1......1...............3
Tuberculous Peritonitis Tabes Mesenterica.....................1........................1
Other Tuberculous Dis eases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tubercu lous)................................................
Convulsions...1......11..............................2
Bronchitis......112421112...2......217
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............I......1...1...21...17
Suflfocation, overlying.....................1........................1
Other CausesI1......2......11.....................4
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District (or Sub-Division) of Tooting.
Population (estimated to middle of 1907), 30,400.
Births in the year—legitimate, 936; illegitimate, 31.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 134 ; illegitimate infants, 9.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 403.