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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 15.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. ALL SAINT'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 15.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. ALL SAINT'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.
AllCausesCertified1232320712935575104794
Uncertified2.........2.................................2
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.............................................22
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup.................................1............1
Whooping Cough..........................................1...1
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms...............231......24131118
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis1........1...211...11......1...8
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..................1............1............2
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth73111221...........................15
Congenital Defects1.........1.................................1
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation..................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1...1132...1.........11......8
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.....................l......1.........1...3
Tuberculous Peritonitis:.....................l........................1
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases........11......l...............2...16
v. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis..................1...........................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................1...........................1
Convulsions3.........3...11............11...18
Bronchitis..................1l13......11...19
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia..................11121...12...110
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other causes...................................................
1432322712935575104796

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District (or sub-division) of All Saints. Population, Estimated to middle of 1906, 20,434. Births in the year, Legitimate, 711 ; Illegitimate, 8.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 93; Illegitimate Infants, 3. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 390.