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Wealdstone 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wealdstone]
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TABLE V.
INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908.
| Cause of Death | Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 9-10 Months, | 10-11 Months. | 11-12 Months. | Total Deaths under One Year | |
| Certified | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27 |
| Uncertified | ||||||||||||||||
| Chicken-pox | ||||||||||||||||
| Measles | ||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria : Croup | ||||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Diarrhoea, all forms | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastroenteritis | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Premature Birth | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Congenital Defects | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | ||||||||||||||||
| Want of Breast-milk | ||||||||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Tuberculous | ||||||||||||||||
| Meningitis | ||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis : Tabes | ||||||||||||||||
| Mesenterica | ||||||||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | ||||||||||||||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Convulsions | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | ||||||||||||||||
| Laryngitis | ||||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Suffocation, overlaying | ||||||||||||||||
| Other Causes | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27 | ||
Births in the year : legitimate 301; illegitimate 2.
Deaths from all Causes at all ages 92.
Population (estimated to middle of 1908) 11,775.
Deaths in the year: legitimate 27 ; illegitimate 0.
Note.—Columns in which no death has incurred have been omitted.