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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

Battersea 1907

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1907

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Table: TABLE V.-Required by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of Health. Borough of Battersea. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1907.

TABLE V.-Required by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of Health. Borough of Battersea. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1907.

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 Causes.—Certified................................................526
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.................................1415315
Scarlet Fever....................................1.........1
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............13...1133224323
Diarrhœal Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms.........11333545523...136
EnteritisMuco1...2143234221125130
Gastro
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh.................................1............1
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth831285108921........................120
Congenital Defects11431192.........12...1...1...26
Injury at Birth31...4.................................4
Want of Breast-milk.....................122..................5
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus442111239422......21137
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis..................1......1......12...27
Tuberculous Peritonitis : Tabes Mesenterica..................1.........1...1...1...4
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................2...............1...1...4
Other Causes.Erysipelas.....................1........................1
Syphilis...1...12221........................8
Rickets.................................1112...7
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...............2...211...1......117
Convulsions...212541.....................1...11
Bronchitis...23611141364...6...251272
Laryngitis...........................4...3......2......
Pneumonia.........114953a5...24...343
Suffocation, overlaying...........................J...1......3......
Other Causes225633685531...2112...64
1243125222025447372822272020232917526

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Borough of Battersea. Population (estimated to middle of 1907).—181,736.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 481; Illegitimate Infants,45.
Births in the year:—Legitimate, 4,406; Illegitimate, 114.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages—2,406.