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

TABLE XXV. Borough of Wandsworth—Streatham 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.'lotalunder i Month. |1—2 Months.2—3 Months.3—4 Months.4—5 Months.5—6 Months.6—7 Months.7—8 Months.8—9 Months.9—10 Nlorths10—11 Months.11—12 Months.Total Deaths under i Year.
All Causes- Certified408655912376994626...123
Uncertified...............1..............................1
Common Infectious Diseases— Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..........................................1...1
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............2.........1111...1...7
Diarrhœal Diseases— Diarrhœa, all forms...............2...1.........111.........6
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...............1...11...2...............5
Gastritis, Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh...........................1..................1
Wasting Diseases-Premature Birth204312311...........................30
Congenital Defects611...8......1......1...............10
Injury at Birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...1......1.................................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus5122104...13......13...1...23
Tuberculous Diseases-Tuberculous Meningitis...............1..............................1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica.................................1............1
Other Tuberculous Diseases...........................1.........1......2
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...........................1..................1
Rickets...........................1..................1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................1........................1
Convulsions5......16.........21............1...10
Bronchitis...............111......1.........1...5
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............11......13...111...9
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other Causes21...14......1...2..................7
408655913376994626...124

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District (or Sub-Division) of Streatham.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1910), 102,930.
Births in the year—legitimate, 1,861; illegitimate, 55.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 108; illegitimate infants, 16.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 890.
(Table 5.