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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 1910

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

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Table: TABLE 13.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. ST. JOHN'S WARD.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 13.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. ST. JOHN'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 CausesCertified17...2...1971033...94356372
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.................................212117
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...................................................
Whooping Cough1.........1...............1......1......3
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...................................................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms..................21......2.........1...6
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro enteritis..................1...1.........1.........3
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth6.........61............1...............8
Congenital Defects2...1...31......1.....................5
Injury at Birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus3.........323............1......1...10
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...............1......1.....................2
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases..........................................2...2
v. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...............1..............................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...............l...1........................2
Convulsions1.........1..................1......1...3
Bronchitis..................1.........3......1......5
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......1...1...2.........2...11...29
Suffocation, overlying1.........1.................................1
Other causes1.........1...11........................3
17...2...1971033...94356372

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District (or sub-division) of St. John. Population, Estimated to middle of 1910, 22,827.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 68; Illegitimate Infants, 4
Births in the year, Legitimate, 633; Illegitimate, 9.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 382.