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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
Lewisham 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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32
INFANT MORTALITY.
During 1913, 269 children died before reaching the
age of one year, equal to 14-6 per cent, of the whole of the
deaths in the Borough. The infant mortality rate is therefore
76 per 1,000 births, compared with 69 per 1,000 in 1912.
With the exception of Hampstead (73 per 1,000) this rate
is the lowest of all the Metropolitan Boroughs. The infant
mortality rate for the County of London was 105 per 1,000.
| Measles | 5 |
|---|---|
| Whooping Cough | 9 |
| Diphtheria and Croup | 2 |
| Tuberculous Diseases | 7 |
| Convulsions | 10 |
| Bronchitis | 16 |
| Pneumonia | 31 |
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis | 43 |
| Suffocation in bed with parents | 3 |
| Injury at Birth | 4 |
| Atelactasis | 2 |
| Congenital Malformations | 13 |
| Premature Birth | 40 |
| Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus | 54 |
| Other causes | 30 |
| 269 |