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Lambeth 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Local Government Board.]TABI.E V.

BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.

INFANTILE MORTALITY (CORRECTED) DURING THE YEAR, 1908. 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 Causes—
Certified1434038312588554594857385644382532782
Uncertified9...231454551...3223347
Common Infectious Diseases — Chicken Pox...................................................
Measles..............................2432516
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...............1...1........................2
Whooping Cough...............141...1...41...1619
Continued Fever...................................................
Diarrhceal Diseases—Diarrhoea, all forms, including
Cholera and Dysentery......45912691317111311855118
Enteritis, Muco-Enteritis, Gastro-Enteritis...43...7244152132...31
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh, Ileo-Colitis...............12...2...1...............6
Wasting Diseases—
Premature Birth831417612064111......1.........134
Congenital Defects1063120112......111.........2727
Injury at Birth2.........21..............................3
Want of Breast-Milk, Starvation...............22...........................4
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1647113830101675531113120
Tubercu ar Diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis...............211321l]...]...13
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica......1...12221......]2......213
Utner luberculous Diseases.....................4243523...427
Other Causes—73...1113]]5]13324237
Influenza...............1.........1...1......144
Erysipelas..................].........1.........22
Syphilis...............445...211...17
Rickets..............................22i•••...7
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...............22223...211]116
Convulsions64121321......32...1......21
Bronchitis......1237776321461249
Pneumonia.........11...11311...122216
Suffocation, overlying.........114...1........................6
Pleuro-Pneumonia.................................]...]...2
Broncho- „11]365555656883...64
Dentition...........................113]2...19
Eczema...............1.........]..................2
Intestinal Obstruction3......14......1...1...12...1...10
Jaundice and other diseases of the liver]2......3...1...........................4
Accident (other than suffocation)411...6.........2..................19
Atelectasis1911...21.................................21
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