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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

Greenwich 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]

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Table: INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1947Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under 1 Year of Age.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1947Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under 1 Year of Age.

Cause of Death.Under 1 week.1—2 Weeks.2—3 Weeks.3—4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1—3 Months.3—6 Months.6—9 Months.9—12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
Small-Fox..............................
Chicken-Pox..............................
Measles........................11
Scarlet Fever..............................
Whooping Cough..............................
Diphtheria—Croup..............................
Influenza..............................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis..............................
Tubercular Meningitis..............................
Abdominal Tuberculosis..............................
Other Tuberculous Diseases..............................
Meningitis (not Tuberculoid)...1......11...1...3
Convulsions..............................
Diseases of Trachea..............................
Bronchitis...1......111...14
Pneumonia (all forms)...1......1211...5
Diarrhoea (all forms)..............................
Gastro-Enteritis...............22......4
Injury at Birth1.........1............1
Atelectasis3.........3............3
Congenital Malformation2...1...3...2......5
Premature Birth142......16............16
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus..............................
Suffocation, Overlay...............1.........1
„ Otherwise1.........111......3
Other Causes111...31......15
Totals2262...30972351

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Note.—All "Transferable Deaths" of residents, i.e., persons resident in the Borough who died outside it have been included. The
transferable deaths of non-residents, i.e., of persons resident elsewhere in England and Wales, and who died in the Borough in like manner
have been excluded.