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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 XXIII.(Table 5.) Borough of Wandsworth—Tooting Sub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year1908.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 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 Weeks3—4 Weeks.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.8—9 Months.9—10 Months.10—11 Months.11—12 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
All Causes —
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Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases—
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup..........................................1...1
Whooping Cough....................................11114
Piarrhœal Diseases—
Diarrhœa, all forms......1...122311...12.........13
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...............122112......1.........
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...........................1..................1
Wasting Diseases-
Premature Birth113...115.................................15
Congenital Defects3...2...5.........1.....................6
Injury at Birth5.........5.................................5
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus32...2710231.....................23
Tuberculous Diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis.....................1.........11.........3
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..............................1...............1
Other Tuberculous Diseases........................1.....................1
Erysipelas........................1.....................1
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...........................1..................1
Convulsions3.........31..............................4
Bronchitis......1...1515......31......1...17
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia1.........131......121221216
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other Causes1...1...212...11...11.........9
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District (or Sub-Division) of Tooting.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1908), 31,300.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,043; illegitimate, 31.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 118; illegitimate infants, 13.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 380.