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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

Hampstead 1920

Report for the year 1920 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: Deaths from stated Causes under One Year of Age, arranged in wards.

Deaths from stated Causes under One Year of Age, arranged in wards.

causes of death.No, 1 (Town).No. 2 (Belsize).No. 3 (Adelaide).No. 4 (Central).No. 5 (West End).No. 6 (Kilburn).No. 7 (Priory).Total.
1. Small-pox........................
2. Chicken-pox........................
3. Measles............1......1
4. Scarlet Fever........................
5. Whooping Cough............21...3
6. Diphtheria and Croup...............1...1
7. Erysipelas........................
8. Tuberculous Meningitis.....................1
9. Abdominal Tuberculosis........................
10. Other Tuberculous Diseases........................
11. Meningitis {not Tuberculous)............11...2
12. Convulsions............ .............
13. Laryngitis........................
14. Bronchitis..................15
15. Pneumonia (all forms)...13217
16. ( Diarrhoea...1...............1
17. c Enteritis............1...4
18. Gastritis........................
19. Syphilis........................
20. Rickets..................• ••...
21. Suffocation, overlying......1............1
22. Injury at Birth.........11...13
23. Atelectasis........................
24. Congenital Malformations...11.........16
25. Premature Rirth...41247119
26. Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus1...13...319
27. Other causes13......22412
Total Deaths ......796716191175
Total Births .....2082131611312684081771566