Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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It will be seen from the foregoing table that in the period 1903-7 and the year 1908 Shoreditch
(167 and 139 respectively) and Bermondsey (150 and 144 respectively) had the highest infantile
death-rates and Hampstead (87 and 69 respectively) had the lowest.
The deaths under one year of age per 1000 births, during each of the four quarters of the year
were as follows:— First quarter 110; second quarter 90; third quarter 129; fourth quarter 123.
The reports of Medical Officers of Health of the several sanitary areas of the Administrative
County for the year 1908 contain tables prepared in accordance with the instructions of the
Local Government Board giving the number of deaths, from all causes and certain specified causes, of
infants at different periods in the first year of life. From the information thus supplied, the
following table has been compiled, showing the figures for London as a whole.
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. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Chicken-pox | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
Measles | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 18 | 39 | 42 | 54 | 60 | 92 | 333 |
Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | - | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 24 |
Diphtheria and Croup | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 67 |
Whooping-cough | - | - | 2 | 5 | 7 | 34 | 39 | 34 | 38 | 32 | 35 | 42 | 44 | 42 | 60 | 62 | 469 |
Diarrhœa, all forms | 2 | 4 | 25 | 33 | 64 | 177 | 193 | 236 | 222 | 202 | 188 | 136 | 137 | 115 | 86 | 103 | 1,859 |
Enteritis (not tuberculous) | 4 | 21 | 22 | 13 | 60 | 90 | 107 | 86 | 75 | 63 | 61 | 44 | 35 | 34 | 40 | 22 | 717 |
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh | 3 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 21 | 25 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 133 |
Premature Birth | 1,518 | 190 | 160 | 92 | 1,960 | 158 | 41 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | - | 2,197 |
Congenital Defects | 331 | 88 | 56 | 34 | 509 | 60 | 35 | 21 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 105 |
Injury at Birth | 100 | 3 | 2 | - | 105 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 110 |
Want of Breast-milk | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 68 |
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 283 | 114 | 139 | 101 | 637 | 318 | 216 | 187 | 112 | 79 | 65 | 39 | 41 | 32 | 27 | 22 | 1,775 |
Tuberculous Meningitis | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 28 | 25 | 22 | 31 | 33 | 37 | 26 | 259 |
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesen terica | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 168 |
Other Tuberculous Diseases | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 17 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 21 | 26 | 18 | 31 | 15 | 20 | 255 |
Erysipelas | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 1 | - | 35 |
Syphilis | 11 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 48 | 53 | 45 | 27 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 229 |
Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 51 |
Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 25 | 19 | 19 | 246 |
Convulsions | 93 | 70 | 37 | 23 | 223 | 70 | 49 | 26 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 520 |
Bronchitis | 8 | 31 | 46 | 37 | 122 | 178 | 110 | 93 | 78 | 72 | 59 | 51 | 70 | 52 | 51 | 46 | 982 |
Laryngitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 18 |
Pneumonia | 14 | 27 | 31 | 36 | 108 | 154 | 117 | 101 | 99 | 112 | 102 | 113 | 127 | 114 | 143 | 141 | 1,431 |
Suffocation, overlaying | 67 | 11 | 23 | 33 | 134 | 84 | 79 | 40 | 33 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 417 |
Other causes | 197 | 59 | 54 | 39 | 349 | 91 | 56 | 45 | 53 | 49 | 42 | 45 | 39 | 42 | 41 | 33 | 885 |
Comparison may be made between the number of deaths from the several causes in the above table with those of the three antecedent years by reference to the following table:—
Cause of death. | 1905. | 1906. | 1907. | 1908. |
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Small-pox | - | - | - | - |
Chicken-pox | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
Measles | 389 | 420 | 400 | 333 |
Scarlet Fever | 34 | 18 | 35 | 24 |
Diphtheria and Croup | 52 | 59 | 53 | 67 |
Whooping-cough | 623 | 502 | 746 | 469 |
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