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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 21.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 21.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1906. 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.
AllCausesCertified1333132302268867896460465852503852890
Uncertified3.........3............1...............15
v. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.....................1121...332720
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup.................................112...15
Whooping Cough...............21...1...15l16321
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms...13269192523161619141667176
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis111...37236235133644
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...1......132113...1......1...13
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth761111410274...1............1......115
Congenital Defects9321151...............1........17
Injury at Birth4...1...5................................5
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation..................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus248584526101646768132134
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.....................152112...1316
Tuberculous Peritonitis:...............11321...1...21...12
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases.........11231...3...2...22218
V. Other causes.Erysipelas...1......1......1........................2
Syphilis...1...12211........................6
Rickets.......................................1113
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)1.........1...2......11414...317
Convulsions7322145221.........222232
Bronchitis......2356757632252353
Laryngitis....................................1......12
Pneumonia2...23775951110101357998
Suffocation, overlying5122103384.....................28
Other causes7...13117512383I221358
1363132302298867896461465852503853895

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District: Borough of Southwark. Population, Estimated to middle of 1906, 209,143. Births in the year. Legitimate, 5,932 ; Illegitimate, 147.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 859 ; Illegitimate Infants, 36 Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 3,767.