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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

St Pancras 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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Table: To enter into a little more detail, the following table shows the differences (increase or decrease) of infantile mortality per 1000 births in the year 1901 as compared with the year 1876 in St. Pancras, and in each of the three months of the first year of age :—

To enter into a little more detail, the following table shows the differences (increase or decrease) of infantile mortality per 1000 births in the year 1901 as compared with the year 1876 in St. Pancras, and in each of the three months of the first year of age :—

Trimesters.
1st,2nd.3rd.4th.
A.Premature birth and congenital defects+8.8-+0.2+0.2
B.Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cholera, Enteritis, and Gastro-Enteritis+1.6+5.4+3.0+2.3
C.Diseases of stomach and liver+1.4+0.2+0.4+0.2
B and C+3.0+5.6+3.4+2.5
A and B and C+12.1+5.8+3.4+2.5
Other Diseases-3.5-4.9-4.4-8.5
Total+8.4+0.9-1.0-6.0

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From other Diseases than those specified as A, B, and C, the mortality per
1000 births in the last three months of the first year of life has fallen much
more than that in the first three months.
From the A, B, and C classes the mortality has risen very much more in
the first than in the last three months, and considerably more in the second
than in the third three months.
From the B and C classes, that is, abdominal diseases of infants, the
mortality has risen most in the second and has fallen most in the fourth
three months.
From the A class alone the rise is confined almost to the first quarter, and
is by far the highest rise of the three classes regarded separately.

Table: Putting the tables in another form we obtain the following results:—Total Infantile Mortality per 1000 Births in 1901 as compared with 1876—

Putting the tables in another form we obtain the following results:—

Total Infantile Mortality per 1000 Births in 1901 as compared with 1876—

Period of Life.Eise or Fall.
1st week= + 9.1.
2nd to 4th week inclusive . .= Stationary.
1 st month= + 9.8.
2nd to 6th month inclusive= Stationary.
7th to 12th month inclusive= — 7.0.