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Southwark 1908

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

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Table: TABLE 12INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. ST. PETER'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 12

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. ST. PETER'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 CausesCertified24725388417335224380
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever.............................................11
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)..........................................1...1
Whooping Cough.....................12...............1...4
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.................................1............1
Influenza................................................
ii. Diarrhœl DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms........................1...2...2.........7
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...1......12......2...11.........18
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth1931...23...1...........................24
Congenital Defects2.........2.................................2
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus...2...2431...........................8
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...............1..............................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................1...21............1...5
v. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis..................1............1............2
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions1.........1.................................1
Bronchitis...1l...21...........................14
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia.........l11...............2...21...7
Suffocation, overlying2......13.................................3
Other causes.........11.................................1
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District (or sub-division) of St. Peter. Population, Estimated to middle of 1908, 19,214.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 72 ; Illegitimate Infants, 8.
Births in the year. Legitimate, 587 ; Illegitimate, 10.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 301.