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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Battersea 1905

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1905

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Table: TABLE V.—(continued.) South-West Battersea. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1905.

TABLE V.—(continued.) South-West Battersea. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1905.

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 Causes.—Certified.2121529122438131...4572
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.............................................11
Scarlet Fever.............................................11
Diphtheria Croup..................................................
Whooping Cough.....................1.........1............2
Diarrhœal Diseases.Diarrhœa, all forms1.........1..................1.........13
Enteritis (not Tuberculous).........112...1...1..................5
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...................................................
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth13......1142..............................16
Congenital Defects...1......11.........1............1...4
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Ereast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus.........11411..................1...8
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...............1..............................1
Tuberculous Peri-tonitis: Tabes Mesenterica........................11..................2
Other Tuberculous Diseases..........................................1...1
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...........................2..................2
Rickets..............................1.........1...2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).............................................11
Convulsions21......3.................................3
Bronchitis2.........21.........1...............15
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia.........11.........2.........1.........4
Suffocation, overlaying...................................................
Other Causes2...114111...2...1............10
2121529122438131...4572

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Sub-division of South-West Battersea.
Births in the year.—Legitimate, 921. Illegitimate, 22.
172
Population (estimated to middle of 1905).—53,407.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 529.