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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
Erith 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]
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TABLE V.
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 1 year. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes. | Certified | 20 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 78 |
| Uncertified | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Common Infectious Diseases. | Chicken-pox | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Measles | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Diarrhœal Diseases. | Diarrhœa, all forms | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||||
| Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Wasting Diseases | Premature Birth... | 12 | 1 | 2 | r> | 15 | ||||||||||||
| Congenital Defects | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Tuberculous Diseases. | Tuberculous Meningitis ... | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Meningitis (Not Tuberculous) | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Convulsions | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||
| Bronchitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||||||||
| Suffocation, overlaying | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Other Causes | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Total | 21 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 31 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 80 | |
Population estimated to middle of 1905 29,700.
Legitimate892.
Births in the year
Illegitimate 8.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 281.