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

TABLE 15.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. ALL SAINT'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.
AllCausesCertified19454321293127459862114
Uncertified1.........1.................................1
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...........................1...1223...9
Scarlet Fever.................................l............1
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough......1...1.........2............1......4
Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms...............223421l4...1...20
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)........................1......l1...1...4
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh......l...11......1............1......4
Premature Birth172l...203...1........................24
Wasting Disease.Congenital Defects......1...1.................................1
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk................................................
Tuberculous Disease.Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus22...151132...1...............13
Tuberculous Meningitis.....................1...1..................2
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...........................1..................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............1l...........................2
Erysipelas......1...1.................................1
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets.......................................1......1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).........................................................
Convulsions1......231.........11.........1...7
Bronchitis.........11...3...2.........1......18
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............22......1l113......11
Suffocation, overlaying...............1...........................12
Other causes...................................................
20454331298127459862ll5

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District (or sub-division) of All Saints. Population, Estimated to middle of 1905, 20,360.
Births in the year, Legitimate 718 ; Illegitimate 10 (1.3 per cent. of total Births). Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 409.
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