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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

Lambeth 1908

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

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Table: TABLE T—continued.B.—Death (corrected) of Infants under One Year of age from the chief infantile diseases, and from all causes, expressed in terms of 1000 births (corrected).

TABLE T—continued.

B.—Death (corrected) of Infants under One Year of age from the chief infantile diseases, and from all causes, expressed in terms of 1000 births (corrected).

Borough 1908.Borough 1907.
Total Deaths under One Year (Corrected).Proportion to 1000 Births (Corrected).*Total Deaths under One Year (Corrected).Proportion to 1000 Births (corrected).*
From all causes829103.2941120.5
Diarrhœa11814.7587.4
Convulsions212.6303.8
Respiratory Diseases14017.419324.7
Premature Births13416.716320.9
Tubercular Diseases (including Phthisis)536.6526.7
Measles161.9262.3
Whooping Cough192.4455.8
Suffocation in Bed60.7212.7
Enteritis313.9516.5
Dentition91.1162.05
N.B.—The Registrar-General gives the corrected births for 1907 and 1908 as 7806 and 8035 respectively.