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Southwark 1909

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

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Table: 2TABLE 13.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. ST. JOHN'S WARD.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

2TABLE 13.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909. ST. JOHN'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 Mohths.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 CausesCertified12715257793341444374
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.................................1211...5
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...................................................
Whooping Cough...........................1..................1
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...................................................
Influenza...................................................
11. Diarrhoeal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms..................24...1..................7
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...............121...12...............7
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
Premature Birth53......8.................................8
HI. Wasting Diseases.Congenital Defects11...24.................................4
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
(Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus3......163121...1............115
IV. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.....................1.....................12
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...............1......1.....................2
Other Tuberculous Diseases...................................................
Erysipelas........................1.....................1
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets.............................................11
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)....................................................
v. Other causes.Convulsions1.........1.................................1
Bronchitis.........1l...............1......1......3
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia......113211............223...14
Suffocation, overlying1.........1...1...........................2
Other causes...................................................
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District (or sub-division) of St. John. Population, Estimated to middle of 1909, 22,731. Births in the year, Legitimate, 618; Illegitimate, 15. Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 68; Illegitimate Infants, 6. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 345.