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Southwark 1908

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

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Table: TABLE 21.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 21.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908. BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.

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 CausesCertified1263141322309582555350464438384935815
Uncertified5.........5.................................5
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.........11...............12115314
Scarlet Fever....................................11...24
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)....................................2...2...5
Whooping Cough.........111433...2...334226
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.....................1......11...1......4
Influenza....................................1.........1
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms......1451224126151614118108141
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...3...146337733212243
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh.........1121...11..................6
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth8081351067111.....................116
Congenital Defects19532292...2.........12......137
Injury at Birth6.........6.................................6
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...............2......1.....................3
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus129105361711910721221199
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...............12...212...234...17
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica......11222221............1...12
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............5222311...42426
v. Other causes.Erysipelas.........11.................................1
Syphilis.........224421......11.........15
Rickets..............................1.........1...2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................1..................1316
Convulsions10131154322124111137
Bronchitis...332810222231323442
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...2226101281111111261096112
Suffocation, overlying4...3298612...l...............27
Other causes......213245.........3......1...18
1313141322359582555350464438384935820

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District: Borough of Southwark. Population, Estimated to middle of 1908, 210,442. Births in the year. Legitimate, 5,885 ; Illegitimate, 142.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants. 774 ; Illegitimate Infants, 46. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 3,488