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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 20INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. ST. SAVIOURS WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 20

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. ST. SAVIOURS 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.
AllCausesCertified8121124661243233450
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.............................................33
Scrlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup................................................1
Diarrhœal DiseasesWhooping Cough..........................................1...1
Diarrhoea, all forms...............1...1...1...12...1...8
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)..............................1...............1
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...................................................
Wasting Disease.Premature Birth6...1...71..............................8
Congenital Defects...................................................
Injury at, Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus...............12.........1...............4
Tuberculous Disease.Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..............................l...............1
, Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis............1.................................
Rickets................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................1........................1
Convulsions...11...2l...1......1.........1...6
Bronchitis..................1...........................1
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia1.........1...31...1...2...2...111
Sufiocation, overlaying1.........1......2........................3
Other causes...................................................
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District (or sub-division) of St. Saviour. Population, Estimated to middle of 1905, 12,193.
Births in the year, Legitimate 359 ; Illegitimate 5 (1.4 per cent. of total Births). Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 211.