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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 5.)

Table: TABLE XXIV. Borough of Wandsworth—Putney Sub-District.Infantile Mortality during the year 1910.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Mouths under One Year of Age.

TABLE XXIV. Borough of Wandsworth—Putney Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year 1910.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Mouths 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 Months4—5 Months.5—6 Months.6—7 Months.7-8 MonthsMonthsq —10 Months.10—11 Months.II—12 Months.Total Deaths under i Year.
All Causes— Certified141...11654422...2122...40
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases— Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..........................................1...1
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough.....................11.....................2
Diarrhœal Diseases-Diarrhœa, all forms..................1............1............2
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis1.........11......1.............1......4
Gastritis, Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh..................1...........................1
Wasting Diseases-Premature Hirth4.........41..............................5
Congenital Defects3.........31..............................4
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation........................j..............................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2.........2...1...............1.........4
Tuberculous Diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis1.........1...........................1...2
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases.................................1............1
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions1.........1............1..................2
Bronchitis...1......11...1........................3
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia.........111...2...1..................5
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other Causes1.........1...1..................1......3
141...|11654422...2122...40

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District (or Sub-Division) of Putney.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1910), 31,860.
Births in the year—legitimate, 476; illegitimate, 15.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 36 ; illegitimate infants, 4.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 284.