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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 14.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. TRINITY WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 14.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. TRINITY 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 Months3-4 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.
AllCausesCertified143322296127115523477
Uncertified...........................1...............12
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox..................................................
Measles.........................................11
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup..........................................1...l
Whooping Cough........................1......1......114
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms...............1...63......32......116
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis.................................................
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth4121812...........................11
Congenital Defects1......12................................2
Injury at Birth2.........2...............................2
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation..................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus12......32.........1...2.........8
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis :...........................1..................1
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis.....................1........:::..................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)1.........1.....................11.....3
Convulsions1...1...22......1.....................5
Bronchitis...............11...........................2
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............1...............1...1126
Suffocation, overlying...............112........................4
Other causes4.........4...2321..................12
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District (or sub-division) of Trinity. Population, Estimated to middle of 1906, 18,120. Births in the year, Legitimate, 496 ; Illegitimate, 14.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 73 ; Illegitimate Infants, 6. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 363.