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Marylebone 1907

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

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TABLE 11.—Infantile Mortality during the Year 1907. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Tear 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. 1___6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Mont hs.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
i.. Common Infectious Diseases.Smallpox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles........................11....2
Scarlet Fever....••............................
Diphtheria : Croup.......2........................2
Whooping Cough..........4....1221..1....11
ii. Diarrhœl Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms..12..3212..14....1....14
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis1..1..2..12..........1....6
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh1......1..1..................2
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth22441314....................37
Congenital Defects .8......821..21....1......15
Injury at Birth2......2......................2
Want of Breast-milk Starvation....1..1......................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus944421421..22..........32
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis..........1..11....112....7
Tuberculous Peritonitis : Tabes Mesenterica..........1....1..............2
. Other Tuberculous Diseases............1..1..............2
v. Other Causes.Erysipelas..........1....................1
Syphilis1......1..2....1......1....7
Rickets..................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)................2..2..1..1..9
Convulsions121..422..1......2......11
Bronchitis..2..13751351....12129
Laryngitis......................1....1..2
Pneumonia1......32533331..16232
Suffocation, overlying1..1132..21..2..1......11
Other Causes84..11333212111......27
55191410983726141717175812103264

Population. Estimated to middle of 1907—127,718.
Births in the year 2,583.
Deaths in the year of legitimate infants, 252 , illegitimate infants, 12.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 1,931.
Death rate per thousand of registered births, 102.026.
Average death rate per thousand of registered births for 5 years ending 1906, 137.98.