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Southwark 1910

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

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Table: TABLE 21.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 21.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.

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.
AllCausesCertified1402718242095545452844414145384139671
Uncertified5.........5.................................5
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox....................................1.........1
Measles1.........1............1245117738
Scarlet Fever.............................................11
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup).................................11.........2
Whooping Cough1...2...3221...141441326
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis........................1..................12
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms.........115765744454355
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...1...12132721142...126
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh1.........11..............................2
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth84845101421...11...............110
Congenital Defects21522303231..................140
Injury at Birth7.........71..............................8
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation........................1......1............2
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus20443311110851055414296
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...............1...11111112...10
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...1......1...11...112...1......8
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............32...1...131...3115
v. Other causes.Erysipelas.........11............1..................2
Syphilis...1...121...1...11...............6
Rickets..........................................1...1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)1.........1111...11...3...1...10
Convulsions4414133142123211...33
Bronchitis111365l2...363321537
Laryngitis..........................................1...1
Pneumonia...1326389381111991313103
Suffocation, overlying211...4623...3......11......20
Other causes2......1343212...12...2121
1452718242145545452844414145384139676

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District: Borough of SouthwaRk. Population, Estimated to middle of 1910, 211,832.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 63: ; Illegitimate Infants, 40.
Births in the year, Legitimate, 5,746; Illegitimate, 127.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 3,360.