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Fulham 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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Table: TABLE VII. (B)INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age,(See Notes at foot of Table IV.)LILLIE WARD.

TABLE VII. (B)

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age,

(See Notes at foot of Table IV.)

LILLIE 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.
All Causes-Certified202593677576656766104
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious diseases Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................1.....................1
Scarlet Fever...........................1..................1
Diphtheria: Croup.................................1...1......2
Whooping Cough.............................................11
Diarrhœal diseases— Diarrhœa, all forms......3141532422412232
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis........................1............1......2
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh.......................................1......1
Wasting diseases— Premature Birth10113151..............................16
Congenital Defects51......6..............................17
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation.........11.................................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus......1231......2.....................6
Tuberculous diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis........................1............1......2
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica.......................................1...1
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Other Causes— Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets.......................................1......1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...............1........................113
Convulsions1......231.........111............7
Bronchitis...................................................
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............222......1...212113
Suffocation, overlying1.........1.........1.....................2
Other Causes2.........2...............11............4
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Births in the year—Legitimate, 373; Illegitimate, 28.
Corrected by distribution of births occurring in Fulham Infirmary.
Deaths in the year of—Legitimate infants, 59; Illegitimate infants, 7.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages—236
Population—13,550 (estimated to middle of 1906).