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Twenty-four deaths took place in St. John's Hospital,
one in the Nightingale Nursing Home, one in the
Carpenters' Almshouses, and one in the parish almshouses,
Church Street.
The following Table summarises the mortality from
the principal Zymotic diseases happening during the last
10 years:—
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
Small Pox
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Measles
8
2
8
1
2
0
13
4
3
2
Scarlet Fever
0
3
1
1
1
0
1
0
0
4
Diphtheria
3
3
3
3
2
1
3
2
1
5
Whooping Cough
7
9
9
10
13
6
3
4
10
6
Enteric Fever
1
0
0
0
2
1
0
1
1
0
19
19
22
15
20
8
20
11
15
17
Infantile mortality.
As previously mentioned, the total number of deaths of
children under one year of age was 61. Of these 14 occurred
under the age of one week, 6 between one and two weeks,
3 between two and three weeks, and 3 between three and four
weeks, a total under one month of 26. Eight occurred
between one and two months, 6 between two and
three months, 3 between three and four months, 4 between
four and five months, 6 between five and six months, 4
between six and seven months, 1 between seven and eight
months, 1 between ten and eleven months, and 2 between
eleven and twelve months. Included in the above figures are
11 premature births, and also 5 deaths which occurred in the
Isleworth Infirmary. The infantile mortality is equal to 7.9