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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 XXV.(Table 5.)Borough of Wandsworth—Springfield Sub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year 1908.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE XXV.(Table 5.)

Borough of Wandsworth—Springfield Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year 1908.

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 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—
Certified123342213118799647132111
Uncertified...................................................
Common Intectious Diseases—
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles....................................1...1...2
Scarlet Fever.....................1........................1
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup.......................................11...2
Whooping Cough..................11...1...11...1...6
Diarrhœal Diseases—
Diarrhœa, all forms...............22...222...11...113
Enteritis, Muce-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...............1...22...21...14...13
Gastritis, Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh...........................1...............12
Wasting Diseases—
Premature Birth6...1181.....................1......10
Congenital Defects1.........1.................................1
Injury at birth...................................................
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus51......6433...21...............19
Tuberculous Diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis.......................................1......1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...........................1..................1
Erysipelas...1......1.................................1
Syphilis......112.................................2
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions...1......1...111.....................4
Bronchitis.........1132...2...111...1...12
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......1...121.........33...24...16
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other Causes.........11...1......2............1...5
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District (or Sub-Division) of Springfield.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1908), 38,800.
Births in the year—legitimate. 917; illegitimate, 24.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate inlants, 103 ; illegitimate infants, 8.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 411.