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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 19INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. CHRISTCHURCH WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 19

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. CHRISTCHURCH 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.(>-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
AllCertified213...6343441113...131
CausesUncertified...................................................
Common Infectious -Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever................................................
Diphtheria: Croup.......................................1......1
Whooping Cough.................................1...1......2
Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms......1...1...1...111......1...17
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh................................................
Premature Birth1.........1.................................1
Wasting Disease.Congenital Defects.....................1........................1
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus11......21121.....................7
Tuberculous Disease.Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)........................1.....................1
Convulsions......1...1............1..................2
Bronchitis......1...122......1................6
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia........................11......1.........3
Suffocation, overlaying...................................................
Other causes...................................................
213...6343441113...131

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District (or sub-division) of Christchurch. Population, Estimated to middle of 1905, 11,389.
Births in the year, Legitimate 247 ; Illegitimate 8 (3.1 per cent. of total Births). Death's from all Causes at all Ages 232.
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