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Enfield 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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TABLE Y.
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. 1 | 2-3 Months. | 3-4 Months. | 4-5 Months. | 5-6 Months. | 6-7 Months. | 1 7-8 Months. 1 | 8-9 Months. | 9-10 Months. | 10- 11 Months. | ll 12 Months. | | Total Deaths under One Year. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes. | Certified Uncertified | 27 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 49 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 134 |
| i. Common InfectiousDiseases. | Small-pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Chicken-pox | ||||||||||||||||||
| Measles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Uroup) ) | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| ii. Diarrhoeal Diseases. | Diarrhoea, all form | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 22 | ||||
| Enteritis. Muco-enteritis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Gastro-enteritis Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh | ||||||||||||||||||
| iii. Wasting Diseases. | Premature Birth | 15 | 1 | 2 | ... | 18 | 2 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||
| Congenital Defects | 5 | 1 | 2 | ... | 8 | 1 | ... | 9 | ||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Want of Breast-milk, | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Starvation Atrophy, Debility | 3 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 28 | ||||||||||
| Marasmus | ||||||||||||||||||
| iv. Tuberculous, Diseases. | Tuberculous Meningitis | |||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis: | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Tabes Mesenterica Other Tuberculous | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Diseases | ||||||||||||||||||
| v. Other Causes. | Erysipelas | |||||||||||||||||
| Syphilis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rickets | ||||||||||||||||||
| Meningitis(not Tuberculous) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Convulsions | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Bronchitis Laryngitis | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 22 | ||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Suffocation, overlying | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Other Causes | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 27 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 49 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 134 | ||
Population, estimated to middle of 1908, .36,185.
Rirths in the year in the year legitimate, 1,385. Deaths in the year of ' legitimate infants, 132.
legitimate 35 Deaths in the year of ( illegitimate infants, 2.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 625.