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Southwark 1908

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

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TABLE 17.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. ST. JUDE'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 CausesCertified1013115719532144158
Uncertified2.........2.................................2
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..........................................1...1
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup).......................................1...1...2
Whooping Cough...................................................
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.......................................1......1
Influenza...................................................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms...............312...422......1116
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis,Gastro-enteritis.....................1........................1
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth612...9.................................9
Congenital Defects2......13.................................3
Injury at Birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2...1...31......2.....................6
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis........................1............1......2
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica........................21..................3
Other Tuberculous Diseases..........................................1...1
v. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...............1..............................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).......................................1......1
Convulsions...............1..............................l
Bronchitis.....................1...............1......2
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............1...4......1...............6
Suffocation, overlying........................1.....................1
Other causes.....................1........................1
12131177196532144160

District (or sub-division) of St. Jude's. Population, Estimated to middle of 1908, 15,308.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 52 ; Illegitimate Infants, 8.
Births in the year, Legitimate, 383 ; Illegitimate, 6.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 244.