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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 1910

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

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Table: TABLE 19.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. CHRIST CHURCH WARD.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 19.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910. CHRIST CHURCH 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 CausesCertified912...12124...35351...440
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.............................................11
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...................................................
Whooping Cough.....................1........................1
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis..............................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms...............1...1......11...1......5
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...................................................
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth8.........8......1........................9
Congenital Defects......1...1.................................1
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus..................1......11...............3
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.................................1............1
Do. Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..............................1...............1
Other Tuberculous Diseases....................................1.........1
VOther causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)1.........1.................................1
Convulsions...11...2.................................2
Bronchitis..............................111......14
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia..................11...21...3......210
Suffocation, overlying.........................................................
Other causes...................................................
912...12124...35351...440

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District (or sub-diviBion) of Christ church. Population, Estimated to middle of 1910, 11,561.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 37; Illegitimate Infants. 3
Births in the year, Legitimate, 263; Illegitimate, 8.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages. 206.