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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 1909

[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 THE YEAR1909.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V.

County Borough of Croydon— Whole District.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR1909.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 Month*.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths Under One Year.
All Causes.
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Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases.
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.................................212...38
Scarlet fever...................................................
Diphtheria : Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............2.........112121313
Diarrheal Diseases.
Diarrhœa, all forms...1......133......2...11......213
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)...1...1211323111.........15
Gastritis...............11.........1...............3
Wasting Diseases.
Premature Birth5610427232...........................77
Congenital Defects1413119411111...1.........29
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk...............1..............................1
Atrophy, Debility Mar asmus241187652522...11...39
Tuberculous Diseases.
Tuberculous Meningitis........................1......1...21...5
Tuberculous Peritonitis:
Tabes Mesenterica ......................1............1.........2
Other Tuberculous D ses..............................1...............1
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis1...1...2......1............1...1...5
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..............................1...1.........2
Convulsions32...16132111111......18
Bronchitis......112512...214312...23
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............5111452562...34
Suffocation, overlying......1...111...........................3
Other causes511184......222...1...1121
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Births in the year
Population Estimated to middle of 1909— 161,078.
(legitimate, 3740. legitimate Infants, 278.
Deaths in the year of illegitimate, 198. illegitimate inlants 35.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages ... 1879.