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Southwark 1910

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

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Table: TABLE 15INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. ALL SAINTS' WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 15

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. ALL SAINTS' 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 CausesCertified1422...1868108826753485
Uncertified1.........1.................................1
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.......................................1...12
Scarlet Fever.............................................11
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...................................................
Whooping Cough....................................1.........1
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis........................1.....................1
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms...............1......22...211...110
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis..................1121......1l......7
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh1.........1.................................1
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth111......12.................................12
Congenital Defects2.........2...11........................4
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation........................1.....................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus111...322212..................12
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.....................1........................1
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..................1......1...1............3
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................l............1......1...3
V. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)....................................2.........2
Convulsions..................131.....................5
Bronchitis......1...13...............11.........6
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia.....................2...121122112
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other causes..................1......1..................2
1522...1968108826753486

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District (or sub-divigion) of All Saints. Population, Estimated to middle of 1910, 20,755.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 83; Illegitimate Infants, 3.
Births in the year, Legitimate, 753; Illegitimate, 7.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 358.