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Finsbury 1910

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1910

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TABLE V. Infantile Mortality during the Year, 1910. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

cause of death.Under 1Week.1-2Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1Month.1-2 Months2-3 Months3-4 Months4-5 Months5-6 Months6-7 Months7-8 Months8-9 Months9-10 Months10-11Months11-12 MonthsTotal Deaths under 1 year.
\ i. Common Infectious
Diseases—
Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles....................14232214
Scarlet Fever..................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)....................1..2.....14
Hooping Cough......••......1..112212212
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases—
Diarrhœa, all forms1..1134..33354225135
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis..........111..1....2..1..7
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..................1....2..1.....
iii. Wasting Diseases—
Premature Birth609568021..................83
Congenital Defects31....4..1..2* *• •........••7
Injury at Birth2......2......................2
Want of Breast-mill (Starvation)..................................
Atrophy, Debility Marasmus221..5775••..611..1..33
iv. Tuberculous Diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis......................2.....114
Tuberculous Peritonitis, Tabes Mesenterica.....1..1....1............••..2
Other Tuberculou Diseases........................11..13
v. Other Causes—
Erysipelas..............• •....1..........1
Syphilis..11132112..............9
Rickets..................................
Meningitis (not Tuber-culous)..............1....2....• •....3
Convulsions2..1..31111........1..17
Bronchitis......1112223* *......2..15
Laryngitis................' '........2..6..
Pneumonia..423985656536..2..63
Suffocation, overlying1111455211............18
Other Causes231..6* •211113311..20
All Causes (Certified)732114131213126251716232021101814342

Population, estimated to middle of 1910, 94,578. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 1,636.
Legitimate, 2755. (Legitimate infants, 317.
Births in the year: Illegitimate, 78. Deaths in the year of Illegitimate infants, 25.