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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Table XXVI. shows approximately the proportion of deaths
per 1,000 births for each week under one month, and for each
month up to 12 months from five groups of diseases.
Compared with 1908 the rate from common infectious
diseases is higher, due to the increase in the number of deaths
from Measles and Whooping Cough. There has, however, been
a very large reduction in the rate from Diarrhoeal diseases, the
rate having been only 13.15, compared with 20.72.
From Wasting diseases, Tuberculous diseases and other
causes there has also been a slight decrease compared with 1908.
Compared with the rate for England and Wales for 1908, the
rate for the common infectious diseases was 7.41 per 1,000 in
England and Wales and 7.07 in Wandsworth, from Diarrhoeal
diseases 19*90 in England and Wales and 13.15 in Wandsworth,
from Wasting diseases 42.37 in England and Wales and 35.18 in
Wandsworth, from Tuberculous diseases 4.65 in England and
Wales and 2.43 in Wandsworth, and from other causes 46.10 in
England and Wales and 28.17 in Wandsworth. The total rate
per 1,000 births was 120 in England and Wales and in Wandsworth
98 for 1908, while the rate in Wandsworth for 1909 was
only 86, by far the lowest rate ever recorded.
Compared with the rate in England and Wales for the five
years 1903-1907 the rate in this Borough was, from the common
infectious diseases 1.21 lower, from Diarrhceal diseases 9.42 lower,
from Wasting diseases 8.65 lower, from Tuberculous diseases 2.93
lower, from other causes 22.9 lower, and from all causes 45.11 per
1,000 births lower.
The rate for 1909 compares more favourably even than in
1908 with the rate for England and Wales for the five years
1903-1907.
In the Table it will also be seen that the rate from the
common infectious diseases was highest at 10 to 11 months, from
Diarrhceal diseases at three to four months, from Wasting diseases
under one month, from Tuberculous diseases at five to six
and 11 to 12 months, and from other causes at one to two months.