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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 20INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. ST. SAVIOUR'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 20

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. ST. SAVIOUR'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.
AllCausesCertified11211156261342331349
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles....................................1...113
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)....................................1.........1
Whooping Cough..............................1...............1
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...................................................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms.....................1........................1
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis,Gastro-enteritis...1......1.................................l
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...............1..............................l
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth61......7.................................7
Congenital Defects2......13.................................3
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1.........1.........11......1......15
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...........................l..................1
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica.................................1............1
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
v. Other causesErysipelas...................................................
Syphilis..............................1...............1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions1.........1...............1...............2
Bronchitis ........................1........................1
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......1...1...23...111...3...113
Suffocation, overlying...............3...1........................4
Other causes...............2..............................2
11211156261342331349

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District (or sub-division) of St. Saviour. Population, Estimated to middle of 1910, 12,384.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 46 ; Illegitimate Infants, 3.
Births in the year, Legitimate, 300 ; Illegitimate, 10.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 188.