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Hornsey 1908

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

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Table: TABLE V.BOROUGH OF HORNSEY.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V.

BOROUGH OF HORNSEY.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908.

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 WeeksTotal under 1 Month.1-2 Month3.2-3 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 1 Year.
All CausesCertified249464311725426525294
Uncertified1......1......................1
Common Infectious DiseasesSmall-pox
Chicken-pox
Measles........................2..2..4
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria: Croup
Whooping Cough............1........1..1..14
Diarrhoea, all forms...1.....112121..1....1..10
Diarrhoeal DiseasesEnteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastroenteritis
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...2...3511......111............10
Wasting DiseasesPremature Birth17121211...........................22
Congenital Defects112...4......1........................5
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...............1..............................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus4.........42.........1..................7
Tuberculous Meningitis
Tuberculous DiseasesTuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...........................1..................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases....................................1.........1
Erysipelas
Syphilis
Rickets
Meningitis (not Turberculous)........................1...............1...2
Other CausesConvulsions13......41..................1.........6
Bronchitis.........111............11............4
Laryngitis
Pneumonia...............31............2...1119
Suffocation, overlying...1...12...1...2.........1.........6
Other Causes1.........1...1...........................2
259464411725426525295

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Registration District, Edmonton. Sub-district, Hornsey
Population, estimated to middle of 1908, 90,814.
Births in the year
legitimate, 1,460.
illegitimate, 25.
Deaths in the year of
legitimate infants, 92
illegitimate infants, 3
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 752.