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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
Deptford 1911
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Previous statistics do not give an accurate comparison
with previous years, because the heading of Diarrhoea did not
include the names mentioned above, but simply cases registered
as epidemic or summer diarrhoea, or epidemic, zymotic or
infective enteritis.
It is usual now to consider the infantile mortality in this
case as being for all children under two years of age.
The deaths from this disease occurred among the inhabitants
of the various Wards as follows:—
East 82.
South 5.
North 43.
South-East 16.
North-West 26.
South-West 16.
The following table shows the periods of the year and the ocalities in which deaths from Diarrhœa and Enteritis occurred n children under two years of age, together with particulars as to sex.
| WARDS. | QUARTERS. | YEAR. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March. | June. | Sept. | Dec. | ||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | Total. | |
| East | — | 2 | 2 | 38 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 50 | 26 | 76 | |
| North | — | 1 | — | 1 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 39 |
| North-West | 1 | — | — | — | 12 | 11 | — | 1 | 13 | 12 | 25 |
| South | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| South-East | — | — | — | — | 8 | 6 | — | — | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| South-West | — | — | — | — | 9 | 3 | 1 | — | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 3 | 87 | 55 | 13 | 9 | 104 | 68 | 172 | |