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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

Croydon 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE V.County Borough of Croydon—Whole District.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THEYEAR1908.Deaths from slated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V.

County Borough of Croydon—Whole District.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THEYEAR1908.

Deaths from slated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1-2 Wet ks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 11 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 Causes.
Certified682816171294838222724241121131823398
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases.
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pex......................................................
Measles...............1.........123133721
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria : Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough.........11.........12......22...311
Diarrhœal Diseases.
Dianhœa, all forms.........112754642112...35
Enteritis (not Tubtrcu-lous...1......1...31...32...4...1...15
Gastritis...1...2321.........3...1...1112
Wasting Diseases.
Premature Birth439125571...1...1...............65
Congenital Defects543...12312............1.........19
Injury at Birth4.........4.................................4
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus8663231315611422121...80
Tuberculous Diseases
Tuberculous Meningitis.........22.........111......1129
Tuberculous Peritonitis:
Tabes Mesenterica..................11............1...1...4
Other Tuberculous D'ses...........................11............2
Erysipelas...11...2.................................2
S???philis.........114211.....................9
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...1......1......1...1...11.........5
Convulsions211...413121......211218
Bronchitis...21146211111......1119
Laryngitis...............•••.................................
Pneumonia122166...3345435645
Suffocation overlying1.........111...1.....................4
Other Caures413821...1...212...111
682816171294838222724211121131823398

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Population Estimated to middle of 1908 157 698.
{Births is the year legitimate, 3835. legitimate infants, 351.
Deaths in the year of
illegitimate, 182. V illegitimate infants, 47.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 2021