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Wandsworth 1908

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE XXII. (Table 5.)Borough of Wandsworth—Streatham Sub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year1908.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE XXII. (Table 5.)

Borough of Wandsworth—Streatham Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year1908.

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 Month.1—2 Montlis.2—3 Months.3—4 Months.4—5 Months.5—6 Months.6—7 Months.7—8 Months.8—9 Months.9—10 Months10—11 Months.11 —12 Months.Total Deaths under i Year.
All Causes— Certified3396654191712791075464154
Uncertified...............1..............................1
Common Infectious Diseases—
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.................................2............2
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough.........1111...............2...1...6
Diarrhœal Diseases—
Diarrhœa, all forms...1...12532251...............20
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis......123...2...1...2...............9
Gastritis, Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh..................1.........1...............2
Wasting Diseases—
Premature Birth173...22231...........................26
Congenital Defects61......7...............11.........110
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus424...10624...21111......28
Tuberculous Diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis..................1..................1......4
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..................11...............11...4
Other Tuberculous Diseases.............................................11
Erysipelas.....................1........................1
Syphilis...............1..............................1
Rickets..........................................1...1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...........................1..................1
Convulsions411...6...22......1............112
Bronchitis...............11...3...2...............7
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............21......1............218
Suffocation, overlying...............1......1.....................2
Other Causes11......2...11......11111...9
3396654201712791075464155

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District (or Sub-Division) of Streatham.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1908), 102.400.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,877; illegitimate, 40.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 138; illegitimate infants, 17.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 923.