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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 14.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. TRINITY WARD.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 14.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. TRINITY 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 CausesCertified13415237621131...33454
Uncertified1.........1.................................1
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.......................................2...13
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including MembranousCroup)...................................................
Whooping Cousrh...............1...........................12
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...................................................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms...............111...............1116
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro enteritis...................................................
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth81121211...........................14
Congenital Defects11......2.................................2
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus3.........311.....................1...6
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis..............................1.........1...2
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............11...........................2
v. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...1...12.................................2
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................1...........................1
Convulsions.........11...............11............3
Bronchitis1.........1.................................1
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...1...12......1......1............15
Suffocation, overlying...............2l......1..................4
Other causes........................1.....................1
14415247621131...33455

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District (or sub-division) of Trinity. Population, Estimated to middle of 1910, 18,399.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 52; Illegitimate Infants, 3.
Births in the year. Legitimate, 480; Illegitimate, 9.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 312.