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Fulham 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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Table: TABLE VII. (E)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.)MUNSTER WARD.

TABLE VII. (E)

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.)

MUNSTER 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 CausesCertified34475501519199111689986179
Uncertified2.........2.................................2
Common Infectious diseases Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.............................................11
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough.........11...11...1............1...5
Diarrhœal diseases— Diarrhœa, all forms...............34116674423454
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis1.........1111...111............7
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh.........11...1............2............4
Wasting diseases— Premature Birth16341243..............................27
Congenital Defects8......19......1........................10
Injury at Birth5.........5.................................5
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...............2..............................2
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2...1...3251...1..................12
Tuberculous diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis...............1............1...1.........3
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous diseases..............................2......2......4
Other Causes— Erysipelas......1...1.................................1
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets.......................................1......1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................1..................1...2
Convulsions1.........1.........11..................3
Bronchitis1.........1...1.........1...1...2...7
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia1......12...21......2...241...14
Suffocation, overlying1.........1111............1.........5
Other Causes...11...22312121.........115
36475521519199111689986181

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Births in the year—Legitimate, 202; Illegitimate, 18.
Correcte 1 by distribution of births occurring in Fulham Infirmary.
Deaths in the year of—Legitimate infants, 26; Illegitimate infants 7.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages—123.
Population—0,200 (estimated to middle of 1906).