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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

Enfield 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: TABLE V.Infantile Mortality during the Year 1909.Deaths from stated causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1909.

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 CausesCertified3512655815811871176889156
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious DiseasesSmall-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................1221...17
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup.............................................11
Whooping Cough........................11......11...4
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases..........11133112......22117
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis.....................21...1.........1...5
Gastro enteritis
Gastritis, Gastro...................................................
intestinal Catarrh
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth22221271..............................28
Congenital defect2.........21.....................1......4
Injury at birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation.........112..............................3
Atrophy, Debility Marasmus351...9521211.........1224
iv.Tuberculous DiseasesTuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..................12........................3
Other Tuberculous Diseases.......................................2......2
v. Other Causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets..............................1...............1
Meningitis(not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions112...41121...11.........112
Bronchitis...1......121...2222121218
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...11...2......1...1222...1112
Suffocation, overlying1.........1.................................1
Other Causes42...282.........1............1...12
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Population, estimated to middle of 1909, 57,453.
Births in the year
legitimate, 1,360.
illegitimate, 40.
Deaths in the year of
legitimate infants
illegitimate infants
156.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 668.