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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 18INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. ST. GEORGE'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 18

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. ST. GEORGE'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.
AllCausesCertified32924471412912104461059142
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox......................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Diarrhœal DiseasesWhooping Cough....................................i21...4
Diarrhoea, all forms......1...1232841423...333
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
Premature Birth161......172..............................19
Wasting Disease.Congenital Defects11......2.......................................2
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus73......10224...2.........1......21
Tuberculous Disease.Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...........................1......11115
Erysipelas...............1..............................1
Syphilis..................11........................2
Rickets........................1.....................1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................1........................1
Convulsions31...2621......11...............11
Bronchitis...1......1421...2l...11...316
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...1......111...2...l...123214
Suffocation, overlaying3l127.........1.....................8
Other causes1.........1...11........................3
32924471412912104461059142

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District (or sub-division) of St. George. Population, Estimated to middle of 1905, 21,395.
Births in the year, Legitimate 721 ; Illegitimate 16 (2.1 per cent. of total Births). Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 479.