London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Lambeth 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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| CAUSE | Under 1 day | 1 - 7 days | 1 - 2 weeks | 2 - 3 weeks | 3 weeks to 1 month | TOTAL UNDER 1 month | 1 - 3 months | 3 - 6 months | 6 - 9 months | 9 - 12 months | TOTAL UNDER 1 year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prematurity | 26 | 16 | 1 | 43 | 43 | ||||||
| Atelectasis and Prematurity | 6 | 1 | 7 | 7 | |||||||
| Hypothermia and Prematurity | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 | ||||
| Bronchitis | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| Congential Heart Disease and | |||||||||||
| Abnormality | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | ||
| Cerebral Haemorrhage | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | |||||||
| Accidents | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Anoxia | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Asphyxia | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| Hyaline Membrane Disease | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Peritonitis | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Infective Hepatitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Intestinal Obstruction | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Placenta Praevia | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Thrombosis of Inferior Vena Cava | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Uraemia | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Cardiac Failure | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Muscular Dystrophy | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Spina Bifida | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Anencephaly | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Erythroblastosis Foetalis | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Meningomyelocele | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Rhesus Incompatability | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Terminal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Haemolytic disease of newborn | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Atelectasis | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| TOTALS | 54 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 91 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 116 |