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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
six from other Tuberculous diseases, compared with 14 in 1910,
17 in 1909, and 26 in 1908; and 118 from diseases of the Respiratory
Organs, compared with 108, 115 and 134.
Five deaths were registered as due to Meningitis, but enquiries
of the medical attendant showed that all these were due to simple
Meningitis.
Table XXVI. shows the proportion of deaths per 1,000 births
from five groups of diseases for each week under one month, from
one to three months and for each three months up to one year of
age.
Compared with 1910 the rate from common infectious diseases
is higher, due to the increase in the number of deaths from Measles
and Whooping Cough, this increase having been greatest in Tooting,
and Wandsworth.
From Diarrhœal diseases there was a very large increase, the
rate having been four times greater than in 1910.
From Premature Birth, Congenital Debility and Malformations
the rate was only slightly higher than in 1910, and this was also
the case from Tubercular disease and from other causes.
From the Table it will be seen that the rate from common
infectious diseases was highest at the ages nine to 12 months,
from Diarrhoeal diseases at three to six months, from Premature
Birth, etc., under one month, from Tuberculous diseases at nine
to 12 months, and from other causes from three to six months.