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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

Kensington 1909

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health 1909

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Table: TABLE V. INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. Deaths from stated Causes, in Weeks and Month:, under One Year of Age.

TABLE V. INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. Deaths from stated Causes, in Weeks and Month:, under One Year of Age.

Cause of Death.1 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.otal Deathsonder One Year.
All Causes.Certified791618121253236342717151330181318378
Uncertified1.........1.................................1
Common Infectious DiseasesSmall-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................1...52...312
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup....................................31......4
Whooping-cough...............112...212222217
Diarrhceal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms...1......1274416144...236
Enteritis Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis...11131...1...1......1...119
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh.......................................1......1
Premature Birth5055464121...1..................69
Wasting Diseases.Congenital Defects911...1111......1...1......1...16
Injury at Birth5.........5.................................5
Want of Breast-milk.........111..............................2
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus653418866632.........1...50
Tuberculous DiseasesTuberculous Menin-gitis.....................12......2...21...8
Tuberculous Peritoni-tis; Tabes Mesen-terica...............1...11111...11...8
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................11......1...1.........4
Erysipelas...............1..................1.........2
Syphilis111...32332...11......1...16
Rickets...• ••.......................................11
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)......1...1...2111...2......1...9
Convulsions11......2121........................6
Bronchitis. . .............464431172......32
Laryngitis.............................................11
Pneumonia......2...24215111411730
Suffocation, overlaying1...124222........................10
Other causes718...1121522...1222181
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legitimate, 8,198. Clegitimate infants, 824.
Births in the year Deaths in the year of
(illegitimate, 183. (illegitimate infants, 55.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 2,449.