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Hampstead 1925

Report for the year 1925 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: Want of Breast Milk has been included under No. 26, Atrophy and Debility.

Want of Breast Milk has been included under No. 26, Atrophy and Debility.

Net Births in the yearlegitimateM. 527Net Deaths in the year oflegitimate infantsM. 19
F. 463F. 22
illegitimateM. 39illegitimate infantsM. 10
F. 44F. 8

Table: The following is the Ward distribution of the Infantile deaths for 1925, classified according to cause of death.

The following is the Ward distribution of the Infantile deaths for 1925, classified according to cause of death.

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........................
4. Scarlet Fever........................
5. Whooping Cough............1113
6. Diphtheria and Croup........................
7. Erysipelas........................
8. Tuberculous Meningitis.........11......2
9. Abdominal Tuberculosis........................
10. Other Tuberculous Diseases........................
11. Meningitis (not Tuberculous)1.....................
12. Convulsions.........1...1...3
13. Laryngitis........................
14. Bronchitis............1......1
15. Pneumonia (all forms)1...21......37
16. Diarrhœa11......1227
17. Enteritis (incl acutegastro)
18. Gastritis........................
19. Syphilis........................
20. Rickets........................
21. Suffocation, overlying........................
22. Injury at Birth21...............3
23. Atelectasis..................11
24. Congenital Malformations...1......1114
25. Premature Birth5l1213...13
26. Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus1......11115
27. Other causes2112...3110
Total Deaths135487121059

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Want of Breast Milk has been included under No. 26, Atrophy and Debility.