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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 1910

Report for the year 1910 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 theMedical Officer of Health.) Infantile Mortality during the Year 1910. 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 theMedical Officer of Health.) Infantile Mortality during the Year 1910. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

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.0-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11 12 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
All CausesCertified22853338553732142381
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious DiseasesSmall-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.............................................11
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Mem branous Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough......1...i21........................15
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms...............11......3..................5
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastroenteritis......1...1........................1......2
Gastritis, Gastro intestinal Catarrh......1...1......1..................1...3
... iii Wasting DiseasesPremature Birth133......16221........................21
Congenital Defects...................................................
Injury at Birth21......3.................................3
Want of Breastmilk. Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility Marasmus11......2...1121..................7
iv. Tuberculous DiseasesTuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis Tabes Mesen{terica}...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
V. Other CausesErysipelas...................................................
Syphilis..............................1...............1
Rickets....................................1.........i
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)1.........1...............1......1......3
Convulsions2.........2...............1.........1...4
Bronchitis.........11......1.........1.........3
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......1122.....................2......8
Suffocation, overly ing1.........11......1.....................3
Other causes231I7............2...1.........111
22853388653732142381

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Population estimated to middle of 1910, 95,729.
, legitimate 1,233 legitimate infants, 71.
Births in the year illegitimate, 36 Deaths in the year of illegitimate infants, 10.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 829.