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

TABLE 13.

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

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.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.
AllCausesCertified14102430111010677471383116
Uncertified1.........1.................................1
Common Infectious-Diseases.Small-pox................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................11...22...6
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough....................................1l......2
Diarrhoeal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms1.........135233......143...25
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)...........................1..................1
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...............2......1...............1...4
Premature Birth8213143..............................17
Wasting Disease.Congenital Defects1.........1...1......1...............3
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2511912311.........1......18
Tuberculous Meningitis.....................2........................2
Tuberculous Disease.Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases ..............................1...............1
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets....................................1......12
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions...1......1............1...11.........4
Bronchitis...............11......1111......17
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia..................131...1...252...15
Suffocation, overlaying22......41............2...............7
Other causes1.........1..................1.........13
15102431111010677471383117

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District (or sub-division) of St. John. Population, Estimated to middle of 1905, 22,895.
Births in the year, Legitimate 706 ; Illegitimate 16 (2.2 per cent. of total Births). Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 453.