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Southwark 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 21INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. FOR THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 21

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905. FOR THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. 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.
AllCausesCertified1605227312708688806856403945605036918
Uncertified03......14...1...........................5
Common Infectious-Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...........................233279531
Scarlet Fever.................................1............1
Diphtheria: Croup.........11........................3......4
I Whooping Cough......1...141231...2264127
Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms1142812222424168101511138171
Enteritis (not Tuberculous)...1......121232123...1220
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh111...34......31...1121...16
Premature Birth103166513010111.....................143
Wasting Disease.Congenital Defects821...11211112...............19
Injury at Birth11......2.................................2
Want of Breast-milk...1......131...........................5
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus301459581521178581251...141
Tuberculous Disease.Tuberculous Meningitis1......12...23...111111114
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...............1...2132......11...11
Other Tuberculous Diseases ..................211121...222317
Erysipelas......1...11.....................1......3
Syphilis...1...231231...............1...11
Rickets........................1.........11...14
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................12231...1......10
Convulsions56261962324633...2151
Bronchitis...2237121345623532668
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia211...461488948715116100
Suffocation, overlaying8433185542...21...1...139
Other causes31......4...132......21...1115
1635227322748689806856403945605036923

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Whole of Borough of Southwark Population, Estimated to middle of 1905, 208,528.
Births in the year, Legitimate 6,113; Illegitimate 137 (2 2 per cent. of total Births). Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 3,848.