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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 1908

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

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Table: TABLE 14.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. TRINITY WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 14.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. 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 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 CausesCertified6455208523233135560
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.........11........................1...13
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including MembranousCroup)................................................
Whooping Cough...................................................
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...................................................
Influenza...................................................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms...............13...112.........2111
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...............1........................1...2
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth4...127.................................7
Congenital Defects11l14.................................4
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus...22...41......11.........1......8
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis........................1.....................1
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica.........11.................................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............1...1.....................13
v. Other causes.Erysipelas................................................
Syphilis....................................1.........2
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions1...1...2...............12......117
Bronchitis...............1........................113
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...1............121............1...l......6
Suffocation, overlying...............1l...........................2
Other causes...................................................
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District (or sub-division) of Trinity. Population, Estimated to middle of 1908, 18,255.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants. 58 : Illegitimate Infants, 2.
Births in the year. Legitimate, 513 ; Illegitimate, 14.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 304.