Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1904
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TABLE T (Continued). B.-Deaths (corrected) of Infants under One Year of age from the cheif infantile diseases, and from all causes, expressed in terms in terms of 1,000 births.
Borough 1904. | Borough 1903. | |||
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Total Deaths under One Year (Corrected). | Proportion to 1000 Births. | Total Deaths under One Year (Corrected). | Proportion to 1000 Births. | |
From all causes | 1248 | 137.8 | 1138 | 125.5 |
Diarrhœa | 222 | 24.5 | 124 | 13.7 |
Convulsions | 36 | 3.9 | 46 | 5.1 |
Respiratory Diseases | 206 | 22.7 | 186 | 20.5 |
Premature Births | 172 | 18.9 | 159 | 17.5 |
Tubercular Diseases (including Phthisis) | 71 | 7.8 | 89 | 9.8 |
Measles | 46 | 5.1 | 25 | 2.8 |
Whooping Cough | 45 | 4.9 | 65 | 7.2 |
Suffocation in Bed | 22 | 2.4 | 28 | 3.1 |
Enteritis | 40 | 4.4 | 27 | 2.9 |
Dentition | 11 | 1.2 | 26 | 2.9 |