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Hornsey 1910

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

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Table: TABLE V.BOROUGH OF HORNSEY.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V.

BOROUGH OF HORNSEY.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910.

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.1-5 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 1 Year
All Causes 1Certified2635540178112312252496
Uncertified11
I Common Infectious Diseases'Small-pox
Chicken-pox
Measles
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria (including membranous Croup..........................................1...1
Whooping Cough..................11.....................13
II. Diarrhoeal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms...........................1..................1
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...............111...............1......4
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...............2...............1............3
III. Wasting Diseasesf Premature Birth19.........195...1........................25
Congenital Defects211152..............................7
Injury at Birth2.........2.................................2
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...............1...1........................2
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus J3l228422221...............21
IV. Tuberculous DiseasesTuberculous Meningitis.............................................11
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica.....................2........................2
Other Tuberculous Diseases..........................................1...1
V. Other CausesErysipelas
Syphilis......1...1......1........................2
Rickets
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................1..................1......2
Convulsions......1...1..............................12
Bronchitis...............1...1.........111......5
Laryngitis
Pneumonia...1...12......1............12...17
Suffocation, overlying1.........1...2...........................3
Other Causes.........1111...........................3
2735540178112312252497

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Registration District, Edmonton. Sub-district, Hornsey.
Population, estimated to middle of 1910, 94,721.
Births in the year <
legitimate, 1,362.
illegitimate, 31.
Deaths in the year of
legitimate infants, 90
illegitimate infants, 7
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 737.