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Islington 1906

Fifty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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1906]

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD RETURN.— Table V.

Table H.

Metropolitan Borough of Islington.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months underOne Yearof Age.

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 Months8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All Causes.Certified1824249353081201089667675655515154501,083
Uncertified..................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles....1..1..1....1144510936
Scarlet Fever......................1........1
Diphtheria: Croup....................1......113
Whooping Cough..........13..2451262430
Diarrhœal Diseases.Diarrhœa, all forms..253102612212516810151288171
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastroenteritis1..3..461415510104697292
Gastritis, Gastro intestinal Catarrh......1133223............14
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth95101381261062................144
Congenital Defects134442524..2....121....37
Injury at Birth..................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation1......13........1..........5
Tuberculous Diseases.Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus236984617191569766..21134
Tuberculous Meningitis1......1..131314231....
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..........172411......1..17
Other Tuberculous Diseases......2214..11..1....1213
Other causes.Erysipelas....1..1..11................3
Syphilis....2..2....31..111......9
Rickets..........1..1........1....25
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)....1..12..12212..12218
Convulsions581..14211..111....1224
Bronchitis..32..5151096396563582
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia..3117l6149696866106103
Suffocation, overlying5..1..635521............22
Other Causes3865655113623351..56100
Totals182424935308I201089667675655515154501083
Births in the yearlegitimate 8,415Deaths in the year oflegitimate infants1,050Population.
illegitimate 244illegitimate infants33Estimated to middle of 1906.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages5,050344,987.