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Wandsworth 1910

[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. Borough of Wandsworth—clapham Sub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year 1910.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE XXIII. Borough of Wandsworth—clapham Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year 1910.

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 Montths.4—5 Months.5—6 Months.6—7 Months.7—8 Months.8—9 Months.9—10 Months.10—11 Months.11— 2 Months.Total Deaths under I Year.
All Causes— Certified2284438101065361...22184
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases— Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...........................1..................2
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............1...1...1..................3
Diarrhœal Diseases— Diarrhœa, all forms.....................1......1...............2
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis......1...12112...1.........1...9
Gastritis, Gastro Intestinal Catarrh...................................................
Wasting Diseases— Premature Birth10433201..............................21
Congenital Defects41...161..............................7
Injury at Birth11......2.................................2
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus11......2331......1...............10
Tuberculous Diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis........................1.....................1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas...1......1.................................1
Syphilis........................1.....................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)........................1.....................1
Convulsions1.........11..............................2
Bronchitis..................21......2...............6
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............12......111......118
Suffocation, overlying2.........2...1...........................3
Other Causes3.........3...11........................5
2284438101065361...22184

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District (or Sub-Division) of Clapham.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1910), 69,520.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,327; illegitimate, 31.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 75; illegitimate infants, 9.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 625.
(Table 5.)