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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
Lewisham 1915
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1915
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INFANT MORTALITY.
During 1915, 258 children died before reaching the
age of one year, equal to 12.19 per cent, of the whole of the
deaths in the Borough. The infant mortality rate is therefore
79 per 1,000 births, compared with 74 per 1,000 in 1914.
With the exception of Hampstead (78.2 per 1,000) this rate
is the lowest of all the Metropolitan Boroughs. The infant
mortality rate for the County of London was 112 per 1,000.
Causes of Death.—The following list shows the principal
causes of death among infants under one year of age:—
Measles 11
Whooping Cough 9
Diphtheria and Croup 2
Tuberculous Diseases 5
Convulsions 13
Bronchitis 23
Pneumonia 26
Diarrhoea and Enteritis 31
Suffocation in bed with parents 4
Injury at Birth 6
Atelactasis 10
Congenital Malformations 15
Premature Birth 41
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus 46
Other causes 16
258