London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

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]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: TABLE V.— continued.County Borough of Croydon—South Norwood Ward District.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V.— continued.

County Borough of Croydon—South Norwood Ward District.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 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.
All Causes.
Certified8822199652342214461
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases.
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.......................................11...2
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria:Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...........................1..................1
Diarrhœal Diseases.
Diarrhœa, all forms...............121...13...1.........9
Enteritis (not Tubercu lous................................................1
Gastritis...................................................
Wasting Diseases.
Premature Birth51......62..............................8
Congenital Defects31116.................................6
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus...21...32..............................5
Tuberculous Diseases.
Tuberculous Meningitis...........................1...............12
Tuberculous Peritonitis:
Tabes Mesenterica.....................1.........11...1...4
Other Tuberculous D'ses...................................................
Erysipelas...1..........................................1
Syphilis..................2...........................2
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................1........................1
Convulsions..................11.....................13
Bronchitis...1......12...1..................1...5
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...1......11......1...............125
Suffocation, overlying..................1...........................1
Other Causes...1...121......1...11............6
8822199652342214461
Population Estimated to middle of 1908—23,739.

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Births in the year legitimate, 634. illegitimate, 13. Deaths in the year of legitimate infants, 50.
illegitimate infants, 11.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 267.