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Fulham 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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Table: TABLE VII. (D)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.)MARGRAVINE WARD.

TABLE VII. (D)

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.)

MARGRAVINE 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—11) Months.10—11 Months.11—12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All CausesCertified17...1427119611104123266107
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious diseases Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...........................1......1...24
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...................................................
Diarrhœal diseases— Diarrhœa, all forms......11343753101...1341
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis.....................1...11...1...1...5
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...............11...........................2
Wasting diseases— Premature Birth821213.................................13
Congenital Defects41......5......1..................1...7
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus31......4...21...2...............110
Tuberculous diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................1...........................1
Other Causes— Ervsipelas................................................
Syphilis...1...121......1............1...16
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..........................................1...1
Convulsions.......................................1......1
Bronchitis...............1...........................12
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............1......1......1............3
Suffocation, overlying...............1..............................1
Other Causes2.........231...21...1............10
1751427119611104123266107

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Births in the year—Legitimate, 1232; Illegitimate, 45.
Corrected by the distribution of births occurring in Fulham Infirmary.
Deaths in the year of—Legitimate infants, 152; Illegitimate infants, 29.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages—519.
Population 39,650 (estimated to middle of 190 6).