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Southwark 1909

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

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Table: TABLE 16INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. ST. MICHAEL'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 16

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. ST. MICHAEL'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.J 11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All CausesCertified2084234731368557761102
Uncertified1.........1.................................i
i Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.......................................3......3
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...........................1...1......1...2
Whooping Cough...............1.........2...11...1...6
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.....................1........................1
Influenza...................................................
ii. Diarrhoeal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms...............1...111...231......10
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...........................1..................1
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
Premature Birth63......9.................................9
iii. Wasting Diseases.Congenital Defects7.........71.........1..................9
Injury at Birth5.........5.................................5
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...1......1..............................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus ...23117......421211...2...18
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...1......1.................................3
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases.....................1........................1
Erysipelas........................1.....................1
Syphilis...............111........................3
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).................................1......12
v. Other causes.Convulsions......1...1....................................1
Bronchitis.....................1...11......1......4
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia1......122...32...1...2...1115
Suffocation, overlying......2...211..................1......4
Other causes..................11......1......1......4
2184235731368557761103
District (or sub-division) of St. Michael. Population, Estimated to middle of 1909, 25,450. Births in the year, Legitimate, 660 ; Illegitimate, 11. Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 95 ; Illegitimate Infants, 8. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 455.