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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: TABLE 17.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. ST. JUDE S WARD.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 17.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. ST. JUDE 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 CausesCertified8...25153742221154349
Uncertified................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox......................................................
Chicken-pox.........................................................
Measles..............................1...............12
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup]................................................
Whooping Cough........................1.....................1
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...................................................
Influenza...................................................
ii. Diarrhæal DiseasesDiarrhea, all forms...............2...1...1......11...6
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis..........................................1......1
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
Premature Birth4......26.................................6
iii. Wasting Diseases.Congenital Defects1.........1...1...........................2
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1.........1......1......1...............3
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis....................................11......2
Do Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica.....................1..................1...2
Other Tuberculous Diseases..........................................1...1
Erysipelas......1...1.................................1
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets.........I1.................................1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Other causes.Convulsions.........111...........................13
Bronchitis..................1...........................1
Laryngitis................................................
Pneumonia.........11131...1...1...21112
Suffocation, overlying2.........31...1........................5
Other causes...................................................
825153742221154349
District (or sub-division) of St.'Jude. Population, Estimated to middle of 1909, 15,357. Births in the year, Legitimate, 333 ; Illegitimate, 7. Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants. 44 ; Illegitimate Infants 5. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 273.