London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
42
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.
| Cause of Death. | under 1 Week | I 2 Weeks. | , 2—3 Weeks. | Weeks. | I otal under 1 Month. | 1—2 Months. | 2- 3 Months. | Months. | Months. | 5-6 Months. | <>—7 Months. | 7-8 Months | 8-9 Months | Months. | 10 -11 Months. | 11 — 12 Months. | Total Deaths under 1 Year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes- | |||||||||||||||||
| Certified | 5 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Uncertified | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Common Infectious Diseases— | |||||||||||||||||
| Small-pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Chicken-pox | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Measles | |||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | |||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria: Mem. Croup | |||||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | |||||||||||||||||
| Diarrhcœl Diseases — | |||||||||||||||||
| Diarrhoea, all forms | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Gastritis, Gastro-Intesti-nal Catarrh | |||||||||||||||||
| Wasting Diseases — | |||||||||||||||||
| Premature Birth | |||||||||||||||||
| Congenital Defects | |||||||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | |||||||||||||||||
| Want of Breast Milk, Starvation | |||||||||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Diseases- | |||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Meningitis... | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica | |||||||||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | |||||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | |||||||||||||||||
| Syphilis | |||||||||||||||||
| Rickets | |||||||||||||||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | |||||||||||||||||
| Convulsions | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | |||||||||||||||||
| Laryngitis | |||||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||
| Suffocation, overlying | |||||||||||||||||
| Other Causes | |||||||||||||||||
| 13 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 43 |
District (or Sub-Division) of Tooting.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1909), 32,070.
Births in the year—legitimate, 990; illegitimate, 27.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 88 ; illegitimate infants, 12.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 404.