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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
Walthamstow 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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The total infant deaths by main causes for the past five years were as follows:-
| Year. | Influenza. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Tuberculous Meningitis. | Other T.B. Diseases. | Meningitis. | Convulsions. | Bronchitis. | Pneumonia. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis. | Gastritis. | Syphilis. | Inattention at Birth— Wilful Neglect. | Suffocation by Overlaying. | Injury at Birth. | Atelectasis. | Congenital Malformation. | Premature Birth. | Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus. | Inanition. | Heart Failure. | Other Causes. | St. James Street. | High Street. | Hoe Street. | Wood Street. | Hale End. | Higham Hill. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 1 | — | - | — | — | 1 | — | 12 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 78 |
| 1929 | 1 | - | - | 6 | 2 | — | 2 | — | 6 | 27 | 9 | 1 | — | — | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 2 | — | 9 | 25 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 18 | 100 |
| 1928 | — | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | - | 4 | 8 | 10 | 25 | 7 | — | — | — | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 15 | — | 3 | 6 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 102 |
| 1927 | 2 | — | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 3 | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 2 | 7 | 12 | 28 | — | — | 6 | 17 | 20 | 26 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 107 |
| 1926 | — | 2 | — | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 15 | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | 10 | 10 | 20 | — | — | 11 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 27 | 100 |
| Total | 3 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 27 | 91 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 23 | 50 | 96 | 8 | 7 | 39 | 95 | 75 | 85 | 74 | 72 | 86 | 487 |