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Fulham 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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Table: TABLE VII. (A)INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1900.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.(Sec Notes at foot of Table IV.)BARON'S COURT WARD.

TABLE VII. (A)

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1900.

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

(Sec Notes at foot of Table IV.)

BARON'S COURT WARD.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1—2 Weeks.2—3 Weeks.3—4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1—2 Months.2—3 Months.3—4 Months.4—5 Months.5—6 Months.6—7 Months.7—8 Months.8—9 Months.9—10 Months.10—11 Months.11—12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
AH CausesCertified7...2...1041...3......1......1121
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious diseases Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...................................................
Diarrhœal diseases— Diarrhoea, all forms...............1......2......1............4
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-cnteritis...................................................
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh..................1...........................1
Wasting diseases— Premature Birth2.........2.................................2
Congenical Defects4.........4.................................4
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1...1...21..............................3
Tuberculous diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous diseases...................................................
Other Causes— Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tubcr-culous)..........................................1...1
Convulsions...................................................
Bronchitis...................................................
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......1...1.........1.....................2
Suffocation, overlying...............2..............................2
Other Causes.............................................11
8...2...1041...3......1......1121

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Births in the year—Legitimate, 719; Illegitimate, 42.
Corrected by distribution of the births occurring in Fulham Infirmary.
Deaths in the year of—Legitimate infants, 89; Illegitimate infants, 15.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages—333.
Population—23,450 (estimated to middle of 1906).