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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.
The total number of births was 7,331, of which 7,154 were
legitimate and 177 illegitimate, and the total deaths 720, 653
legitimate and 67 illegitimate.
There were five deaths from the notifiable diseases, one from
Scarlet Fever and four from Diphtheria.
One of the deaths from Diphtheria occurred in Clapham, one
in Tooting, and two from Diphtheria and one from Scarlet Fever
in the Springfield sub-district.
14 deaths occurred from Measles, 25 from Whooping Cough,
148 from Diarrhoeal diseases, 290 from Wasting diseases, 26 from
Tubercular diseases, 134 from diseases of the Respiratory Organs,
eight from Meningitis, seven from Syphilis, and 68 from other
causes.
Compared with 1907, there has been an increase in the
number of deaths from the notifiable diseases, from Diarrhoeal
diseases, Wasting diseases, and Tubercular diseases, and a
decrease in the number of deaths from Measles, Whooping Cough,
diseases of the Respiratory Organs, Meningitis, and other causes.
In all the deaths, with three exceptions, two in Putney and
one in Streatham, the cause of death was certified by a medical
man or by a coroner after inquest.
32'6 per cent. of the deaths occurred in the first month, compared
with 33.7 in 1907 and 32.03 in 1906; 55" 1 per cent. in the
first three months, compared with 53 and 51.7; and 77.7 in the
first six months, compared with 73 and 72.6.