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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

Hampstead 1909

Report for the year 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE V. (Required by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.) Infantile Mortality during the Yeah 1909. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V. (Required by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.) Infantile Mortality during the Yeah 1909. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

cause of death.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month1-2 Months.2-3 Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Montha.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
All Certified272574110376293445599
Causes Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious DiseasesSmall-pox Chicken-pox Measles Scarlet Fever . Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) WhoopingCougb...................................................
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..................1.........1............13
...................................................
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...............1...3......1...112110
ii. Diarrhoea Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms Enteritis, Muco-enteritis. Gastro enteritis Gastritis, Gastro intestinal Catarrh.........1111...........................3
.........11..................1............2
.....................1........................1
iii. Wasting DiseasesPremature Birth Congenial Defects Injury at Birth Want of Breastmilk, Starvation Atrophy, Debility Marasmus10"11121...1......1...............18
4.........1......11.....................6
5.......5.................................5
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2...32721...2...1.........1...14
iv. Tuberculous DiseasesTuberculosis Meningitis Tuberculosis Peritonitis: Tabes Mesen terica Other Tuber-culous Diseases........................1...1......1......3
.................................1............1
.................................1.........1
v. Other CausesErysipelas Syphilis Rickets Meningitis (not Tuberculous Convulsions Bronchitis Laryngitis Pneumonia Suffocation, overlying Other causes..............................1...............1
1...12...............1...............8
.......................................1......1
........................1.....................1
...1..........................................1
...............1..................1......13
................................................
.........11......11211...11l10
1.........1.................................1
5...1...61............l...1......111
272574110376293445599

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Population estimated to middle of 1909, 94,185.
Births in the year legitimate, 1,239
illegitimate. 43 Deaths in the year of legitimate infants, 88.
legitimate infants, 11.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 839.