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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

Hornsey 1908

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

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Table: The following table gives the number of infantile deaths and the mortality for each Ward of the Borough:—

The following table gives the number of infantile deaths and the mortality for each Ward of the Borough:—

Number of deaths uder 1 year.Infantile Mortality i.e., deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births
Highgate848
Muswell Hill743
Crouch End792
West Hornsey2879
East Hornsey2076
North Haringey1366
South Haringey227
Stroud Green110
Finsbury Park984
The Borough9563

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The principal causes of deaths in infants under one year of
age were as follows: —Premature Birth 22, Diarrœahal Diseases 20,
Debility 7, Convulsions 6, Pneumonia and Bronchitis 13, Suffocation
from over-lying 6.
Of these, the deaths from Debility, Convulsions and Diarrhœal
Diseases were probably largely due to improper feeding, and thus
in a sense were preventible.