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

Chelsea 1910

Annual report for 1910 of the Medical Officer of Health

This page requires JavaScript

Table: TABLE XVI.—(v.) INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910.

TABLE XVI.—(v.) INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910.

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 1 under One Year.
Common Infectious Diseases—
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles....................................113...5
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough.................................1...2115
Diarrhœal Diseases—
Diarrhœa, all forms.........11...1213...1.........110
Enteritis, Muco- and Gastro-enteritis..................1...31.........1......8
Gastritis, Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh...............1..................1.........2
Wasting Diseases—
Premature Birth1742...23.................................23
Congenital Defects5.........51111.........1.........10
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation412...7......1...1..................9
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus12......3224.........1............12
Tuberculous Diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis....................................1.........1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..................1..................1......2
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas.........111..............................2
Syphilis......2...2......2...1..................5
Rickets...........................1..................1
Meningitis {not Tuberculous)1.........1.........1......11.........4
Convulsions...2......22.........1...............17
Bronchitis11...133.........2...21......319
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia1......12...1...............1.........7
Suffocation, overlaying...............1..............................1
Other Causes4.........4............21...1.........8
All Causes34106454117106131068556141

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Births in the year, legitimate 1,296
,, ,, illegitimate 80
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 952
Population, estimated to middle
of 1910 75,457
Deaths in the year of legitimate
Infants 133
Deaths in the year of illegitimate
Infants 8