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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 16INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. ST. MICHAEL'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 16

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. ST. MICHAEL'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.1 10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
AllCausesCertified2475440914367343784113
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................1......12...4
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup.......................................1......1
Whooping Cough...............1......1l...1...1......5
Diarrhceal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms...12...3242Il ,1...1......221
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)...1......1.........11...11......16
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh1.........1.................................1
Premature Birth172......1911...........................21
Wasting Disease.Congenital Defects1.........11..............................2
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk..................1.........1...............1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus4112824...1.........1......17
Tuberculous Meningitis.........11.................................1
Tuberculous Disease.Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica.....................111.........1......4
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipolas...................................................
Syphilis.........11.................................1
Rickets.................................... .....................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................1...............1......2
Convulsions11......2...1...........................3
Bronchitis...11...21...1...1...1............6
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia..................3l...2...1112112
Suffocation, overlaying......1...11...l........................3
Other causes.....................l1.....................2
2475440914867343784113

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District (or sub-division) of St. Michael. Population, Estimated to middle of 1905, 25,133.
Births in the year, Legitimate 75U ; Illegitimate 21 (2-7 per cent, of total Births). Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 445.
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