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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

Bethnal Green 1909

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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Table: TABLE V. Total Infantile Mortality during the year, 1909. , Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under one Year of Age.

TABLE V. Total Infantile Mortality during the year, 1909. , Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under one Year of Age.

CAUSE OF DEATHUnder 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.
All Causes.
Certified...................................................
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...........................112513417
Scarlet Fever..........................................112
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)....................................11...13
Whooping Cough ii. Diarrhœal Diseases...............2...32......3...2...113
Diarrhœa, all forms......11294711576358673
Enteritis, Mucoenteritis, Gastroenteritis...............482241223...230
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...............211.........1.........5
iii. Wasting Diseases
Premature Birth55551666311.....................77
Congenital Defects193...224341.........1...2......36
Injury at Birth7.........7..............................17
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...............1..............................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus72121210863331121151
iv. Tuberculous Diseases
Tuberculous Meningitis........................112......1128
Tuberculous Peritonitis, TabesMesenterica.....................321......31......10
Other Tuberculous Diseases v. Other Causes.....................11...121...129
Erysipelas........................11......1.........3
Syphilis...............13...1.....................5
Rickets...1......1..............................12
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)........................116121...113
Convulsions26141341121...1...1...125
Bronchitis......2245531322332235
Laryngitis..............................1.........12
Pneumonia...1...237737712597462
Suffocation, overlying22318825...2..................25
Other Causes1...113241...1141...3...20
932014161436450383631252928322731534

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Population, (estimated to middle of 1909), 131,316. Births in the year, 4,132. Deaths in the year, 534
Deaths from all Causes, at all Ages, 2,422.