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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

Finsbury 1913

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1913

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Table: TABLE IV.Infant Mortality, 1913.

TABLE IV.

Infant Mortality, 1913.

causes of death.Under 1 week.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 4 weeks.4 weeks and under 3 months.3 months and under 6 months.6 months and under 9 months.9 months and under 12 mos.Total deaths under 1 year.
All causesCertified....................
Uncertified....................
Small-pox....................
Chicken-pox....................
Measles............1..67
Scarlet fever..............1..1
Whooping cough......11..343..
Diphtheria and Croup............1..12
Erysipelas....................
(Tuberculous Meningities............2..40
Abdominal Tuberculosis............2114
other Tuberculous Diseases..........1..225
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)............1....2
Convulsions....112....1..3
Laryngitis................11
Bronchitis..1214824321
Pneumonia (all forms)1....23816151759
(Diarrhœa21....36168639
Enteritis111..39159440
Gastritis......112......3
Syphilis..1....142....7
Rickets....................
Suffocation, overlying1......11042..17
Injury at birth3......3........3
Atelectasis4......4........4
Congenital Malformations.....2131......4
Premature birth37792553......58
Atrophy, Debility and1..214871..20
Other causes434112646331
Totals5414211110066765551348

Table:

Nett Births in the yearlegitimate 24482448Nett Deaths in the year ofillegitimate infants326
illegitimate46illegitimate infants22