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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 19.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. CHRISTCHURCH WARD.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 19.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. CHRISTCHURCH 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 Mouths.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All CausesCertified31...2653211...31...124
Uncertified1.........1.................................1
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)....................................1.........1
Whooping Cough..................1..................1......2
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...................................................
Influenza...................................................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms..................1...............1......13
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...1.........1...............1............3
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth2.........22..............................4
Congenital Defects1.........1.................................1
Injury at Birth................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation.............................................•••
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1.........1...l1...1..................4
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
v. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions....................................1.........1
Bronchitis.........22.................................2
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia.....................11.....................2
Suffocation, overlying...............1.................................1
Other causes...............1...........................1
41...2753211...131...125

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District (or sub-division) of Christchurch. Population, Estimated to middle of 1908, 11,490. Births in the year, Legitimate, 248 ; Illegitimate, 8.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 21 ; Illegitimate Infants, 2. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 196.