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Fulham 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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Infantile Death-rates.
The infantile death-rates in the several wards of the
Borough since 1901, when particulars of the localities of
births were first obtained, are given in the following table :

TABLE VII. ( H)

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.)

TOWN WARD.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1—2 Weeks.2—3 Wee ks.3—4 Weeks.Total under 1 Months.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 CausesCertified31…153422...21…21…22
Uncertified…………………………………………...
Common Infectious diseases
Small pox……………………………………………
Chicken-pox……………………………………………
Measles……………………………………………
Scarlet Fever……………………………………………
Diphtheria: Croup……………………………………………
Whooping Cough……………………………………………
Diarrhœal diseases—……………………………………………
Diarrhœa, all forms………………112...1......1...6
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis……………11………………………21
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh…………………………………………...
Wasting Diseases—
Premature Birth21……3……………………………3
Congenital Defects…………………………………………...
Injury at Birth…………………………………………...
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation…………………...………………………......
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1………1…1...……………...…...3
Tuberculous diseases—……………………………………………
Tuberculous Meningitis…………...……………………………...
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica……………………………………………
Other Tuberculous Diseases……………………………………………
Other Causes—……………………………………………
Erysipelas…………………………………………...
Syphilis……………1……………………………1
Rickets……………………………………………
Meningitis (not Tuberculous…………………………1……………1
Convulsions………111…………………………2
Bronchitis………………11……………………2
Laryngitis……………………………………………
Pneumonia…………………………………1......1
Suffocation, overlying…………………………………………...
Other Causes…………………………………1……...1
31…153422…21...21...22

The figures for 1906 (in brackets), are the rates after the
distribution of the births in the Fulham Workhouse.
The increase of the infantile death-rate in Margravine
Ward after this correction is especially noticeable.
Deaths of Illegitimate Children.
96 of the children who died before attaining the age of
one year were illegitimate, the mortality among them being
in the proportion of 365 deaths to every 1,000 births, compared
with 123 deaths to every 1,000 births among children
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