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

TABLE XXVIII. Borough of Wandsworth—Springfield Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the year 1910.

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

Uncertified..........................................4......
Common Infectious Diseases— Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.................................11............
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Mem. Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............1.........221...1......7
Diarrhœal Diseases— Diarrhœa, all forms..................1......1...2......1...5
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...........................21.........1...4
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh..................2.........111.........5
Wasting Diseases— Premature Birth10.........101..............................11
Congenital Defects51I...72..............................9
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus21......3...1...1112............9
Tuberculous Diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis..............................1...............1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................1...........................1
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...............11...........................2
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)........................1.....................1
Convulsions11......21............1...............4
Bronchitis...1...12122211...1.........12
Laryngitis......................................................
Pneumonia11......22212...113...2218
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other Causes...............1...1...2..................4
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District (or Sub-Division) of Springfield.
Population (estimated to the middle of 1910), 40,680.
Births in the year—legitimate. 916; illegitimate, 27.
Deaths in the year of—legitimate intants, 88 ; illegitimate infants, 8.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 378.