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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

Chelsea 1909

Annual report for 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE XVII.—(v.) INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909.

TABLE XVII.—(v.)

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909.

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.
Common Infectious Diseases—
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.....................1..................1...3
Scarlet Fever.............................................11
Diphtheria: Croup..............................11...1......3
Whooping Cough........................111......3129
Diarrhœal Diseases —
Diarrhœa, all forms......11221...111......1......9
Enteritis, Muco- and Gastro-enteritis..................2211...1...1......8
Gastritis, Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh...1......11...1........................3
Wasting Diseases-
Premature Birth25...42311......1.....................33
Congenital Defects412...73......1.........1.........12
Injury at Birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation1......12.................................2
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus......123......11............1......6
Tuberculous Diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis........................1............2...14
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases........................1.....................1
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis..............................1...............1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...........................1......11......3
Convulsions1.........1........................1......2
Bronchitis.........3365213412......128
Laryngitis.................................1............1
Pneumonia...............1...1...32.........1...8
Suffocation, overlaying1.........11..............................2
Other Causes111...33...............11......19
All Causes3539956188891010551236150

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Births in the year, legitimate 1,326
„ „ illegitimate 74
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 1,087
Population, estimated to middle
of 1909 75,249
Deaths in the year of legitimate
Infants 137
Deaths in the year of illegitimate
Infants 13