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Southwark 1908

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

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TABLE 15.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. ALL SAINTS' 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 CausesCertified1025118141273686656596
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................1......1...2
Scarlet Fever....................................1.........1
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)................................................
Whooping Cough..................2.........1......2...16
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...................................................
Influenza...................................................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms......1...12...411121...2...15
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis..................1...1......1.........14
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth41......5.................................5
Congenital Defects21......3.....................1.........4
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2...11422......1......1......111
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis..................1..................11...3
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............11............1............3
v. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...............1..............................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................1.....................1...2
Convulsions1.........11............1......1......4
Bronchitis......1...13.........12...2.........9
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......1...1...31133......11216
Suffocation, overlying1...1...23..............................5
Other causes...............112.........1............5
1025118141273686656596

District (or sub-division) of All Saints. Population, Estimated to middle of 1908, 20,589.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 90 ; Illegitimate Infants 6
Births in the year. Legitimate, 696 ; Illegitimate, 11.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 396.