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Fulham 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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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 foot of Table IV.)

SANDS END 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 CausesCertified26351351167511879745115
Uncertified……………………………………………
Common Infectious diseases
Small-pox……………………………………………
Chicken-pox……………………………………………
Measles………………………………1……12
Scarlet Fever……………………………………………
Diphtheria: Croup……………………………1…1……2
Whooping Cough…………………1...2.........1……4
Diarrhœal diseases—
Diarrhœa, all forms……………23224334...2…25
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-en teritis……………1…1…21……2……7
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh………………11……………………2
Wasting diseases—
Premature Birth19…3…221…………………………23
Congenital Defects4…2…6……………………………6
Injury at Birth……………………………………………
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation………………...………………………
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus...1……13…………………………5
Tuberculous Diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis………………………2……………l3
Tuberculous Peritonitis
Tabes Mesenterica……………………………………………...
Other Tuberculous Diseases………111…1......111……6
Other Causes—
Erysipelas……………………………………………
Syphilis…………………………………………...
Rickets ...…………………………………………...
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)…………………………………………
Convulsions…………………………111...3
Bronchitis1………1. . .1……1…1. .l5
Laryngitis…………………………………………...
Pneumonia…1……1• •1…...2221…l10
Suffocation, overlying……………2……2…………………4
Other Causes31…...4...1…1......1• •1l8
263513511671189…45115

Births in the year—Legitimate, 289 ; Illegitimate, 15.
Corrected by distribution of births occurring in Fulham Infirmary.
Deaths in the year of—Legitimate infants, 16; Illegitimate infants, 6.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages— 160.
Population—13,350 (estimated to middle of 1906).