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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Table XXIX. shows approximately the proportion of deaths
per 1,000 births for each week under one month, and for each
month up to 12 months from five groups of diseases.
Compared with 1909 the rate from common infectiousdiseases
is lower, due to the increase in the number of deaths
from Measles and Whooping Cough. There has again been a
very large reduction in the rate from Diarrhceal diseases, the rate
having been only 10.90, compared with 13,15 in 1909, and 20.72
in 1908.
From all other causes there has also been a slight decrease
compared with 1909.
Compared with the rate for England and Wales for 1909, the
rate for the common infectious diseases was 6.97 per 1,000 in
England and Wales and 5.30 in Wandsworth, from Diarrhœal
diseases 12.64 in England and Wales and 10.90 in Wandsworth,
from Wasting diseases 41.69 in England and Wales and 34.87 in
Wandsworth, from Tuberculous diseases 4.00 in England and
Wales and 2.00 in Wandsworth, and from other causes 43.43 in
England and Wales and 25.11 in Wandsworth. The total rate
per 1,000 births was 108 in England and Wales and in Wandsworth
86 for 1909, while the rate in Wandsworth for 1910 was
only 78, by far the lowest rate ever recorded.
Compared with the rate in England and Wales for the five
years 1904-1908 the rate in this Borough was in 1910, from the
common infectious diseases 2.85 lower, from Diarrhceal diseases
12.0 lower, from Wasting diseases 8.59 lower, from Tuberculous
diseases 3.08 lower, from other causes 24.16 lower, and from all
causes 50.87 per 1,000 births lower.
In the Table it will also be seen that the rate from the
common infectious diseases was highest at 10 to 11 months, from
Diarrhoeal diseases at two to three months, from Wasting diseases
under one month, from Tuberculous diseases at five to six and
11 to 12 months, and from other causes under one month.