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Marylebone 1910

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

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TABLE V.-Infantile Mortality during the Tear 1910. 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.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.1 10-11 Months. I11-12 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............2126....426
Scarlet Fever........................1......1....1..1
Diphtheria: (including Membranous Croup)............................................
Whooping Cough......11..12122131115435315
ii. Diarrhceal Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms..11..2....132..........1911619
Enteritis, Muco enteritis Gastro-enteritis..2....2••255..3..2312256611225
Gastritis, Gastro intestinal Catarrh..........1....................1......11
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth3847251111..............54141126354
Congenital Defects .12611953311..11......344720334
Injury at Birth7....7......................7122..7
Want of Breast-milk Starvation1......1..1..................21..1..2
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1411762511............2283922
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.'Tuberculous Meningitis..........................21..3111..3
Tuberculous Peritonitis : Tabes Mesenterica....................1..........1....1..1
Other Tuberculous Diseases..............11..............21..1..2
v. Other Causes.Erysipelas..........1....................11......1
Syphilis............................................
Rickets............................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)....................1..2..1..4....224
Convulsions2....13..2211..........915129
Bronchitis12....313311131131224410422
Laryngitis..............................111......1
Pneumonia..........2..12....1....118125..8
Suffocation,overlying4..1..5..1..........1..1..84..4..8
Other Causes......112211212..12217625417
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Population. Estimated to middle of 1910-125,195.
Births in the year, legitimate, 2,442; illegitimate, 114.
Deaths in the year of legitimate infants, 224; illegitimate infants, 29.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 1,607.