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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Acton 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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Table: Table 5.INFANTILE MORTALITYDeaths from stated Causes in Weeks

Table 5.INFANTILE MORTALITY

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 week1-2 weeks2-3 weeks3-4 weeksTotal under 1 month.
Common Infectious DiseasesSmall-pox...............
Chicken-pox...............
Measles...............
Scarlet Fever...............
Diphtheria (including Membanous Croup...............
Whooping Cough................
Diarrhoeal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms...1...12
Enteritis, Mucoenteritis, Gastro enteritis...............
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...............
Wasting DiseasesPremature Birth.261...128
Congenital Defects71...l9
Injury at Birth2.........2
Want of Birth milk, starvation.........l1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1...1...2
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculosis Meningitis...............
Tuberculosis Peri tonitis:Tabes Mesenterica...............
Other Tuberculous Diseases...1......1
Erysipelas...............
Syphilis...............
Rickets...............
Meningitis, (not Tuberculous)...............
Convulsions...1......1
Bronchitis.........1l
Laryngitis1.........l
Pneumonia1...124
Suffocation, overlaying1l......2
Other Causes...l...23
3972957
Population estimated to middle of 1907, 53,000.
Births in the yearlegitimate,1498
illegitimate37