London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

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

This page requires JavaScript

Table: TABLE V.—(continued).South-West Battersea. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1907.

TABLE V.—(continued).

South-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 1 Months.2-3 1 Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.io-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year
All Causes.—Certified.206233155232i323158
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough..................1...............1...318
Diarrhoeal Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms.................................1...1......2
EnteritisMuco Gastro......21311...........................5
Gastritis, Gastro intestinal Catarrh................................................
Premature Birth154...1201..............................21
Wasting Diseases.Congenital Defects11......2.................................2
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Ereast-milk.....................1........................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus.....................1........................1
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis....................................1.........1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases..........................................1......
Other Causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions.........111..............................2
Bronchitis..................1...............1.........3
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............1.....................1......3
Suffocation, overlaying...................................................
Other Causes41......512......1..................9
2062331552...32i323158

Text

Copy text to clipboard

SUb-division of Socth-West Battersea. Population (estimated to middle of 1907).— 56,515. Births in the year—Legitimate, 862; Illegitimate, 21.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 53 ; Illegitimate Infants, 5. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 488.