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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

Finsbury 1908

Report on the public health of Finsbury 1908 including annual report on factories and workshops

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Table: Infantile Mortality during the Year, 1908. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Infantile Mortality during the Year, 1908. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

cause of death.Under 1 Week1-2 Weeks2-3 Weeks3-4 WeeksTotal under 1 Month1-2 Months2-3 Months3-4 Months4-5 Months5-6 Months6-7 Months7-8 Months8-9 Months9-10 Months10-11 Months11-12 MonthsTotal Deaths under 1 Year
Common Infectious
Diseases—
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...........................I...1133...10
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria; Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............1......3......2.........I7
Diarrhœal Diseases—
Diarrhoea, all forms Enteritis......1...136812557513359
Enteritis, Muco-en-teritis, Gastro-en-teritis ...............21343241...1...21
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh................................................
Wasting Diseases— Congenital Defects Injury at Birth
Premature Birth3979358211........................62
Congenital Defects91...21211...........................14
Injury at Birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast-milk (Starvation) Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus921214445533121......42
Tuberculous Diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis.....................12.........321...9
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesen-terica..................121...1...............5
Other Tuberculous Diseases.....................1......1111......5
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis12...142...1........................7
Rickets................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...............12...222111......12
Convulsions2...215311...212...3......18
Bronchitis......213232...4......14...221
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia1...2...36342452444950
Suffocation, overlaying223411274121......1......29
Other Causes3111652223...2111227
All Causes (Certified)681521151193432353429212320221318400

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Population, estimated to middle of 1908, 96,007.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 1,767.
Births in the year:
Legitimate, 3,440.
Illegitimate, 34.
Deaths in the year of
Legitimate infants, 388.
Illegitimate infants, 12.