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Marylebone 1907

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

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BLE VII. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1908. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months and in Sub-Districts under One Year 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.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months. 110-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.All Souls.St. Mary.Christ Church.St. John.Totals.
smallpox............................................
chicken-pox....1..1......................1....1..1
measles..........1..........22....16..15..6
scarlet Fever............................................
diphtheria: (includ-ing Membranous Croup)............1..........1......2..11..2
whooping Cough..........1....1....21I....63..3..6
diarrha, all forms....1..163..4....1112..19486119
Enteritis, Muco-en- teritis Gastro-enteritis..11..221231..11114544114
gastritis, Gastro- intestinal Catarrh..1......1....................2....112
premature Birth4513..5021..1..............54141421554
congenital Defects12..3..1751..3121........303915330
injury at Birth2......2......................2..11..2
want of Breast-milk Starvation............................................
atrophy, Debility, Marasmus112298511........11228888428
Tuberculous Meningitis..............1..111111..722127
tuberculous Perito- nitis: Tabes Mesenterical............................................
other Tuberculous Diseases............11..11..........4....4..4
Erysipelas..........................................
syphilis..........11..................21..1..2
rickets............3......1..1....2721227
meningitis (not Tuberculous)......11................2....3....213
convulsions11....2..........1......2..511215
bronchitis1....12211223..22119287219
laryngitis..........................1....1..1....1
pneumonia..2..14314312..23613081010230
suffocation,overlying3....1533....1............12435..12
other Causes43....7122............113255113
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Population. Estimated to middle of 1908—126,867.
births in the year, legitimate, 2,441; illegitimate, 118.
deaths in the year of legitimate infants, 227; illegitimate infants, 40.
deaths from all causes at all ages, 1,845.