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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
TABLE XIX. (Table s->
Borough of Wandsworth.
Infantile Mortality during the year 1909.
Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.
Cause of Death.
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Certified
131
39
27
24
221
59
43
57
30
25
28
31
34
25
24
20
597
Uncertified
4
4
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Common Infectious
Diseases—
Small-pox
Chicken-pox
I
1
Measles
I
1
2
4
5
4
3
21
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup
1
1
Whooping Cough
1
4
3
1
I
3
3
2
7
1
26-
Diarrhceal Diseases—
Diarrhoea, all forms
1
1
1
2
9
5
4
3
3
5
4
1
4
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Enteritis, Muco-enteritis,
Gastro-enteritis
1
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9
10
5
5
5
2
2
2
3
2
2
48.
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal
Catarrh
1
1
2-
Wasting Diseases —
Premature Birth
79
9
9
7
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6
1
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Congenital Defects
19
6
4
1
30
7
3
1
1
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Injury at Birth
6
1
7
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Want of Breast Milk,
Starvation
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus
13
15
7
5
40
12
10
11
5
3
2
2
1
86-
Tuberculous Diseases-
Tuberculous Meningitis...
1
1
2
2
1
1
2
10
Tuberculous Peritonitis:
Tabes Mesenterica
1
j
1
Other Tuberculous Diseases
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
Erysipelas
1
1
Syphilis
1
1
2
2
1
1
6-
Rickets
1
1
2-
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)
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1
1
2
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7
Convulsions
8
3
1
2
14
1
4
4
2
1
1
29
Bronchitis
1
1
3
5
8
3
8
1
3
3
3
5
3
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43
Laryngitis
Pneumonia
1
1
2
11
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7
7
4
5
8
7
9
2
4
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Suffocation, overlying
3
1
4
2
1
7
Other Causes
6
2
2
2
12
1
2
2
1
2
2
1
1
2
4
30
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39
27
24
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43
57
30
25
28
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34
25
24
20
601
Population (estimated to the middle of 1909), 339,100.
Births in the year—legitimate, 6,810 ; illegitimate, 175.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 553 ; illegitimate infants, 48.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 3,520.