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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.—(continued).North-West Battersea. Infantile Mortality during: the Year 1907.

TABLE V.—(continued).

North-West 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.4814687620171911IO137714107211
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................1...31218
Scarlet Fever....................................1.........1
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............2...1...2......1...17
Diarrhoeal Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms.........11112...12211...113
EnteritisMuco Gastro1.........11...14111......3114
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...................................................
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth284123511...........................37
Congenital Defects32......51........................1...7
Injury at Birth3.........3.................................3
Want of Breast-milk........................11..................2
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus32......5115212......2......19
T uberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...........................1...............12
Tuberculous Peri tonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Other Causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis.........1121............1............5
Rickets ..................................1...1......2
Meningitis | (not Tuberculous)...............1......1..................13
Convulsions...1......12• ••.....................1...4
Bronchitis...2...36672...221...41132
Laryngitis................................................
Pneumonia...............1351331231...23
Suffocation, overlaying..........................................
Other Causes10341183141............11...29
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Sub-division of North-Wesi Battersea Population (estimated to the middle of 1907).—49,481. Births in the year.—Legitimate, 1,503 ; Illegitimate, 49.1
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 192 ; Illegitimate Infants, 19. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages—793.