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

TABLE XXVI. Borough of Wandsworth—Tooting Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year 1910.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases— Small pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..........................................1...1
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Mem.Croup...................................................
Wnooping Cough..................1...............111...4
Diarrhœal Diseases— Diarrhœa, all forms..............................2......11...4
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis.........11...112...1...1...1...8
Gastritis, Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh1.........11..............................2
Wasting Diseases-Premature Birth1711192..............................21
Congenital Defects21115.........1.....................7
Injury at Birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus11226112.........1............11
Tuberculous Diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis...........................1......1......13
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis........................2.....................2
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).......................................1......1
Convulsions.......................................1......1
Bronchitis1......12111...2...1.........19
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............41111...2...1...214
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other Causes1.........1.....................1.........2
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District (or Sub-Division) of Tooting.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1910), 32,970
Births in the year—legitimate, 973; illegitimate, 26.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate infants, 82; illegitimate infants, 10.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 342.