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Wandsworth 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Vital Statistics.
(3.) Average No. of persons in receipt of
outdoor relief2,967
(4.) Amount of outdoor relief given£54,094

Table: Extracts from Vital Statistics.

Extracts from Vital Statistics.

Births:—
Males2,477Legitimate4,736
Females2,404Illegitimate145
Total Births4,881Birth-rate14.17
Deaths:—
Total Deaths3,557Death-rate10.32

Table: No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth:—

No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth:—

From sepsis9
From other causes9

Table: Deaths of Infants under one year of age:—

Deaths of Infants under one year of age:—

Legitimate248
Illegitimate10
Total258

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Infantile mortality 52
Deaths from Tuberculosis:—
No. 314
Rate .91
Total deaths from Measles 1
Total deaths from Whooping Cough 37
Total deaths from Diarrhoea (under two years of age) 26
Population.
The population at the middle of the year was estimated to
be 344,370, and all the rates used in this Report are calculated
on this figure. The corresponding figure for the year 1924 was
341,234.
Table I. shows the population of each sub-district, based on
the above estimation, compared with the Census population.
B 2