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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 1906

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

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Table: TABLE 13.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. ST. JOHN'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 13.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. ST. JOHN'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.
AllCausesCertified143322299137107461077111
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox..................................................
Measles.....................1.....1...............2
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough....................................1...1...2
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms...............132413124...223
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis.....................1...1.........1...14
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...1......1......1........................2
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth7111102..............................12
Congenital Defects2.........2.................................2
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus4.........4...32...1122......217
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis........................1.........1.........2
Tuberculous Peritonitis:...........................1........................1
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............1.........1.........1......3
Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...............1..............................1
Rickets..........................................1...1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).......................................2...13
Convulsions.........111........................1...3
Bronchitis...............11...1111............6
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......1...1111...21.........119
Suffocation, overlying111...3......1........................4
Other causes...............11313.........23...14
143322 299137107461077111

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District (or sub-division) of St. John. Population, Estimated to middle of 1906, 22,474. Births in the year, Legitimate, 637 ; Illegitimate, 18.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 104 ; Illegitimate Infants, 7. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 390.