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Marylebone 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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TABLE VIII- Infantile Mortality during the Year 1906. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under-l 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 Mouths.9-10 Mon hs.10-11 Months.1 1-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
Common Infectious Diseases.Smallpox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles....................11..42..8
Scarlet Fever..........................1....1
Diphtheria: Croup..................................
Whooping Cough............12....1..1....16
Diarrhœal Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms33455222483240
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis..........34222......11..15
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..............12....1........4
i. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth24446385....................43
Congenital Defects152..219311..1..........126
Injury at Birth4..1..5......................5
Want of Breast-milk Starvation..............1................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1125422569222..222155
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis......................1....2..3
Tuberculous Perito- nitis: Tabes Mesenterica......11......1..............2
Other Tuberculous Diseases............211............26
Other Causes.Erysipelas......11..........1..........2
Syphilis1..214231..111........13
Rickets..................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)............1....11..2......5
Convulsions111..32........1......2..8
Bronchitis..111334..112..134325
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia11....22141..12133121
Suffocation, overling5......5....1................6
. Other Causes11..111322......12..52..27
73111817119313028121014127272111322

Population. Estimated to middle of 1906—127,960.
Births in the year 2,648.
Total deaths under one year, 322.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 2,265.