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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
Hampstead 1905
Report for the year 1905 of the Acting Medical Officer of Health
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Table shewing Infantile Deaths classified as from "Preventable" and "Non-Preventable" causes of Death:—
| PREVENTABLE. | NON-PREVENTABLE. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| CAUSE OF DEATH. | Totals. | CAUSE OF DEATH. | Totals. |
| Common Infectious Diseases: | Common Infectious | ||
| Small-pox | - | Diseases: | |
| Chicken-pox | - | Scarlet Fever | — |
| Measles | 1 | Diphtheria: Croup | — |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | ||
| Diarrhœal Diseases: | Wasting Diseases: | ||
| Diarrhœa, all forms | 7 | Premature Birth | 24 |
| Enteritis (not Tuberculous) | 3 | Congenital Defects | 19 |
| Gastritis, Gastro- intestinal Catarrh | 6 | Injury at Birth | 8 |
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 13 | ||
| Wasting Diseases: | |||
| Want of Breast-milk | Erysipelas | — | |
| Tuberculous Diseases: | Syphilis | 2 | |
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | 7 | ||
| Tuberculous Meningitis | 2 | ||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica | 1 | Convulsions | 4 |
| Bronchitis | 4 | ||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | 3 | Laryngitis | — |
| Rickets | 1 | Pneumonia | 11 |
| Suffocation, overlaying | 5 | Other Causes | 6 |
| Total | 35 | Total | 98 |