Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1913
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TABLE IV.—(continued).
South-West Battersea. Infant Mortality, 1913.—Nett Deaths from stated causes at various Ages under 1 Year of Age.
CAUSES OF DEATH. | Under 1 week. | 1-2 weeks. | 2-3 weeks. | 3-4 weeks. | Total under 4 weeks. | 4 weeks & under 3 months. | 3 months & under 6 months. | 6 months & under 9 months. | 9 months & under 12 months. | Total Deaths under 1 year. | |
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Small-pox | |||||||||||
Chicken-pox | |||||||||||
Measles | 1 | ||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | |||||||||||
Whooping-cough | |||||||||||
Diphtheria and Croup | |||||||||||
Erysipelas | |||||||||||
Tuberculous Meningitis | |||||||||||
Abdominal Tuberculosis . ... | |||||||||||
Other Tuberculous Diseases... | |||||||||||
Meningitis (not 7 ubrrculous) ... | 1 | ||||||||||
Convulsions | 1 | ||||||||||
Laryngitis | |||||||||||
Bronchitis | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||||||
Pneumonia (all forms) | 1 | 2 | l | 4 | 8 | ||||||
Diarrhoea | |||||||||||
Enteritis | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||||||
Gastritis | |||||||||||
Syphilis | |||||||||||
Rickets | |||||||||||
Suffocation, overlying | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Injury at Birth | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
Atelectasis | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Congenital Malformations | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
Premature Birtli | 11 | 13 | 13 | ||||||||
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus | 5 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 12 | |||||
Other Causes | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
Totals | 23 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 64 | ||
Nett Births in the year—Legitimate, 881; Illegitimate, 22. | |||||||||||
Nett Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 60; Illegitimate Infants, 4 |
Nett Births in the year—Legitimate, 881; Illegitimate, 22.
Nett Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 60; Illegitimate Infants, 4