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Marylebone 1909

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

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TABLE V.—Infantile Mortality during the Tear 1909. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Tear of Age.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week. 11-2 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 Months10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.All Souls.St. Mary.Christ Church.St. John.Totals.
i. Common Infectious Diseases.'Smallpox............................................
Chicken-pox............................1..1....1..1
Measles......................1..33..7....7..7
Scarlet Fever............................................
Diphtheria: (including Membranous Croup)......................1........1....1..1
Whooping Cough............2......221......7....617
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases.Diarrhœa, all forms..1....14..14..1212..1174..11217
Enteritis, Muco-en teritisGastro-enteritis....325..211..1..1......11334111
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh11..132............1..1..7313..7
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth354314311..........1....147111122347
Congenital Defects162322377412....1......45151213545
Injury at Birth............................................
Want of Breast-milk Starvation..1....1......................1......11
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus421..7211221..112..20439420
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.'Tuberculous Meningitis..............1..1..1......141..214
Tuberculous Perito nitis: Tabes Mesenterica............................................
Other Tuberculous Diseasesj..........1............2..115..1315
v. Other Causes.Erypsipelas............................................
Syphilis............................................
Rickets............................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..1....1............1..11..411114
Convulsions1..113..11....1..........6321..6
Bronchitis..........32....42122..117119617
Laryngitis....................1..........1....1..1
Pneumonia1......122..313....154225511122
Suffocation, overlying2......253....1..11......13355..13
Other Causes51..285114....1..1..2235413123
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Population. Estimated to middle of 1909—126,027.
Births in the year, legitimate, 2,414; illegitimate, 120.
Deaths in the year of legitimate infants, 226; illegitimate infants, 33.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 1,849.