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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 1909

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

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Table: 2TABLE 12.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. ST. PETER S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

2TABLE 12.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. ST. PETER 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 Mouths.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 CausesCertified1262424...151...12231343
Uncertified1.........1.................................1
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles....................................1...113
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...................................................
Whooping Cough...................................................
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...................................................
Influenza...................................................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms..................1...........................1
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro enteritis...1......1......2.....................14
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...............1.....................1......2
Premature Birth91......10.................................10
iii. Wasting Diseases.Congenital Defects2...114.................................4
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus...3...151...1........................7
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis.........11.................................1
Rickets.....................1........................1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................l......1...............2
v Other causes.Convulsions1.........1.................................1
Bronchitis......1...1.....................11......4
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia....1......13.....................1......7
Suffocation, overlying.........1l.................................1
Other causes........................1..................12
13624256151...12231350
District (or sub-division) of St. Peter. Population, Estimated to middle of 1909, 19,214. Births in the year. Legitimate, 534; Illegitimate, 7. Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 48; Illegitimate Infants, 2. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 276.