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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

Southwark 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 12.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING TEE YEAR 1905. ST. PETER'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 12.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING TEE YEAR 1905. ST. PETER'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.1 2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1-2 Months.2-3 Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
AllCausesCertified125152324457233149,60
Uncertified..................1...........................1
Common Infectious -Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...........................1...1.........13
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............1...1........................2
Diarrheal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms.........11...12...2111.........9
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)....................................1.........1
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...........................1..................1
Premature Birth83......11.................................11
Wasting Disease.Congenital Defects2.........2...............1...............3
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk..................1..............................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus12126...3...1......1............11
Tuberculous Meningitisl.........1.................................1
Tuberculous Disease.Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..........................................1...1
other Tuberculous Diseases........................1.....................1
Erysipalas...................................................
Syphilis..........................................1...1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...........................1..................1
Convulsions.........11.................................1
Bronchitis.........11.........11......1...1...5
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia..................1111.........1...16
Suffocation, overlaying........................1.....................1
Other causes..........................................1...1
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District (or sub-division) of St. Peter. Population, Estimated to middle of 1905, 19,214.
births in the year, Legitimate 513 ; Illegitimate 12 (2.3 per cent. of total Births). Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 290.
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