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Southwark 1908

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

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Table: TABLE 10INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. ST. MARY'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 10

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. ST. MARY'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.
All CausesCertified74311510757646245...71
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..........................................1...1
Scarlet Fever.......................................1......1
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...................................................
Whooping Coush..........................................1...1
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis................................................
Influenza...................................................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms ..................32211211.........13
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...1.........1......13..................6
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..................1...........................1
Premature Birth421...72..............................9
iii. Wasting Diseases.Congenital Defects1.........1......2........................3
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus...............2......2......1............5
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis....................................1ll...3
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............1.....................l......2
v. Other causes.Erysipelas.........11.................................1
Syphilis..................1...........................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions1...1...2......11.....................4
Bronchitis...1l...2.................................2
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............12...1223...12...14
Suffocation, overlying..................1...l.....................2
Other causes.................................1............1
74811510757646245...71

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District (or sub-division) of St. Mary. Population, Estimated to middle of 1908, 22,200. Births in the year. Legitimate, 613 ; Illegitimate, 24.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 69 ; Illegitimate Infants, 2 Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 360.