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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

Brentford and Chiswick 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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Table: TABLE IIINFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1940.Net deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year.

TABLE II

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1940.

Net deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year.

CAUSE OF DEATH. .Under 1 week1-2 weeks.2 — 3 weeks3 — 4 weeksTotal-under 4 weeks1 - 3 months.3-6 months.6-9 months.9 - 12 months.Total under 1 year.
1. Small-pox----------
2.Chicken-pox----------
3.Meales----------
4. Scarlet Fever----------
5. Whooping Cough----------
6. Diphtheria or Croup----------
7. Erysipelas----------
8. Tuberculous meningitis--------11
9. Abdominal Tuberculosis----------
10. other Tubere.diseases----------
11. Meningitis (nonT.B.)------1-23
12.Convulsions----------
13. Laryngitis-------—--
14. Bronchitis------1—-1
15.Pneumonia (all forms)-----41---
16. Diarrhoea----------
17. Enteritis-----1-113
l8. Gastritis----------
19.Rickets---------
20. Suffocation, overlying-------1-1
21.Injury at birth1---1----1
22. Atelectasis2---2---2
23. Congenital malformation1---2---3
24. Premature birth15---15----15
25. Atrophy, Debility & Marasmus----1----1
26. Pemphigus Neonatorum---------
27. other causes----214--7
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TOTALS1913-.23772443

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* Coal Gas Poisoning
BIRTHS:-Legitimate 668 DEATHS:-Legitimate 42
Illegitimate 36 Illegitimate 1
infantile mortality rate per 1,000 births - 59