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Fulham 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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Table: TABLE VII. (c)INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.(See Notes at fool of Table IV.)WALHAM WARD.

TABLE VII. (c)

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

(See Notes at fool of Table IV.)

WALHAM WARD.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week. 11—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.
11 CausesCertified9152177353872341666
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious diseases Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................1......1......2
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough..............................1...............1
piarrhœal diseases— Diarrhœa, all forms...............11223312...1319
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-eneritis...........................1..................1
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Cattarrh...........................1..................1
Wasting diseases— Premature Birth51......6.................................6
Congenital Defects2.........21..............................3
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus......2...2111......1...............6
Tuberculous diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica.......................................1......1
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Other Causes— Erysipelas....................................1.........1
Syphilis......1...1.................................1
Rickets.................................1............1
Meningitis (not Titber-culous)...................................................
Convulsions1......12..............................13
Bronchitis...............1......1..................13
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......1...11.........31......1...18
Suffocation, overlying.........112...1........................4
Other Causes......1...1...11...............1......4
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Births in the year—Legitimate, 591; Illegitimate, 33.
Corrected by the distribution of births occuring in Fulham Infirmary.
Deaths in the year of—Legitimate infants, 86; Illegitimate infants, 21.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages—329.
Population —18,400 (estimated to middle of 1906).