Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1905 including annual report on factories and workshops
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As regards age distribution of infants' deaths, as a general rule it may be said that they diminish from the first month onwards to the twelfth. The following table gives the age incidence for 1905
Months. | 0— | 1— | 2— | 3— | 4— | 5— | 6— | 7— | 8— | 9— | 10- | 11— | Totals |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
North Clerkenwell | 31 | 15 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 146 |
South Clerkenwell | 32 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 98 |
Pinsbury (St. Luke) | 60 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 178 |
St. Sepulchre | ... | 2 | 2 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 7 |
Totals | 123 | 42 | 42 | 32 | 32 | 24 | 24 | 19 | 32 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 429 |
Turning now to the causes of death in these infants, we find the record is as follows:—
Causes of Death. | Diarrhoea. | Prematurity. | Marasmus. | Bronchitis. | Pneumonia. | Convulsions. | Suffocated in Bed. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Developmental Diseases. | Tuberculosis Disease*. | Diphtheria, Son riot, Fever. | Miscellaneous. | Totals. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
North Clerkenwell | 21 | 20 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 146 |
South Clerkenwell | 14 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | ... | 15 | 98 |
Finsbury (St. Luke) | 42 | 28 | 13 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 178 |
St. Sepulchre | ... | ... | 4 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Totals, 1905 | 77 | 65 | 35 | 41 | 29 | 26 | 29 | 5 | 15 | 32 | 15 | 4 | 56 | 429 |
The number of infant deaths due to Epidemic Diarrhœa fell
from 116 in 1904 to 77 in 1905. Further reference is made to this
subject, and the whole question of infant mortality, on a later
page in the present report. Here it may be noted that nearly a
quarter of all the deaths in Finsbury, in 1905, was of infants
under one year of age.
A careful enquiry has been made into the cause of death of nearly
all children dying in the Borough, under 12 months of age. Four