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

TABLE 17.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. ST. JUDE'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.
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Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious -Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................1......1......2
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............11...........................2
Diarrhoeal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms...............1...23.........22...111
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)...............1..............................1
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
Wasting Disease.Premature Birth611...8.................................8
Congenital Defects...................................................
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk...1......11..............................2
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2...1...3...21...11...1...1...9
Tuberculous Disease.Tuberculous Meningitis..................1............1l.........4
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...........................1..................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...1......1......1........................2
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions...............1......1.........l.........3
Bronchitis.........1111l......l............5
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia..................111..................14
Suffocation, overlaying...............12............1............4
Other causes................................................
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District (or sub-division) of St. Jude. Population, Estimated to middle of 1905, 15,171.
Births in the year, Legitimate 374 ; Illegitimate 9 (2.4 per cent. of total Births). Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 266.