Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE T—continued. B.—Deaths (corrected) of Infants under One Year of age from the chief infantile diseases, and from all causes, expressed in terms of 1000 births (corrected).
Borough 1906. | Borough 1907. | |||
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Total Deaths under One Year (Corrected). | Proportion to 1000 Births (Corrected).* | Total Deaths under One Year (Corrected). | Proportion to 1000 Births (Corrected).* | |
From all causes | 1088 | 131.3 | 941 | 120.5 |
Diarrhœa | 217 | 26.2 | 58 | 7.4 |
Convulsions | 40 | 4.8 | 30 | 3.8 |
Respiratory Diseases | 150 | 18.1 | 193 | 24.7 |
Premature Births | 152 | 18.4 | 163 | 20.9 |
Tubercular Diseases (including Phthisis) | 42 | 5.1 | 52 | 6.7 |
Measles | 19 | 2.3 | 26 | 3.3 |
Whooping Cough | 33 | 3.9 | 45 | 5.8 |
Suffocation in Bi d | 15 | 1.1 | 21 | 2.7 |
Enteritis | 82 | 9.9 | 51 | 6.5 |
Dentition | 17 | 2.1 | 16 | 2.05 |
N.B.—The Registrar-General gives the corrected births for 1906 and 1907 as 8270 and 7806 respectively.