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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 14.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. TRINITY WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 14.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. TRINITY 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 Months3-4 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.
AllCausesCertified14332221054514...536368
Uncertified1.........1..............................1
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox.........................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.............................................11
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Diarrhœal DiseasesWhooping Cough..........................................1...1
Diarrhoea, all forms.........11...112...1...111110
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh........................1.....................l
Premature Birth7...1...8.................................8
Wasting Disease.Congenital Defects2.........2.................................2
Injury at Birth...1......1.................................l
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus4......153...11...2...11......14
Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Disease.Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..............................1...............l
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............1........................113
Erysipelas....................................1......l
Syphilis...............1..............................l
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions...1......11...1........................3
Bronchitis...............22...1.........1...1...7
Laryngitis................................................
Pneumonia......1...111......1......1...2...7
Suffocation, overlaying211...4111........................7
Other causes....................................1.........1
15332231054514...536369

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District (or sub-division) of Trinity. Population, Estimated to middle of 1905, 18,056.
Births in the year, Legitimate 534; Illegitimate 12 (2.2 per cent. of total Births). Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 332.