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Finsbury 1909

Report on the public health of Finsbury 1909 including annual report on factories and workshops

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TABLE V. Infantile Mortality during the Year, 1909. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Cause of Death.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1-2 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.
i. Common Infectious
Diseases—
Small-pox.................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles............11..3..1144823
Scarlet Fever..................................
Diphtheria (including
Membranous Croup)............................11
Whooping Cough1..1..212....112531321
ii. Diarrhoeal Diseases—
Diarrhœa, all forms..........3783862432..46
Enteritis, Muco-en
teritis, Gastro-en
teritis21....32..131..14..1..16
Gastritis, Gastroin
testinal Catarrh..............1..............12
iii. Wasting Diseases—
Premature Birth4542455221................60
Congenital Diseases3..11511..................7
Injury at Birth..................................
Want of Breast-milk (Starvation)..................................
Atrophy, Debility Marasmus..64616101054121......150
iv. Tuberculous Diseases— Tuberculous Meningitis................12111....17
Tuberculous Peritonitis, Tabes Mesenterica..................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases....................1111..15
v. Other Causes—................1..............1
Erysipelas..2..1342..................9
Syphilis..................................
Rickets..................................
Meningitis (not Tuber culous1......1..1........1........3
Convulsions..1....131112..135..321
Bronchitis..................................
Laryngitis1..2..33361159332847
Pneumonia2..1..31025............1..21
Suffocation, overlying Other Causes215..83122121131126
All Causes (Certified)571516121004233311620182123221228366

Population, estimated to middle of 1909, 95,289.
Legitimate, 2822.
Births in the year: Illegitimate, 35
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 1,814.
(Legitimate infants, 348.
Deaths in the year of Illegitimate infants, 18.