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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

Southwark 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: 2 TABLE 11.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. ST. PAUL'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

2 TABLE 11.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. ST. PAUL'S WARD. 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.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All CausesCertified143152345553......2...3...50
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...................................................
[Whooping Cough.........11.................................1
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...................................................
Influenza...................................................
ii. Diarrhoeal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms............1...1...........................7
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis,Gastro-enteritis...................................................
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh.........111..............................2
Premature Birth6.........81..............................9
iii. Wasting Diseases.Congenital Defects4......15.................................6
Injury at Birth................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation.........11.................................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1.........11...........................5
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis................................................1
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica................................................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases ....................................................
Erysipelas............1.................................1
Syphilis....................................1.........1
Rickets..................1...........................1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
v. Other causes.Convulsions2.........2.................................5
Bronchitis..................1...........................3
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia..................1...............1.........4
Suffocation, overlying1.........1.................................1
Other causes............1.................................1
143152345553......2...3...50
District (or sub-division) of St. Paul. Population, Estimated to middle of 1909, 21,528. Births in the year. Legitimate, 501; Illegitimate, 11. Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 48; Illegitimate Infants, 2. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 295.