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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 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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TABLE 4.
INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1925.
| Causes of Death. | Ages. | Wards. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Under 1 week | 1—2 weeks | 2—3 weeks | 3-4 weeks | 1-3 months | 3—6 months | 6-9 months | 9—12 months | North East | North West | South East | South West | |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – |
| Tuberculous Peritonitis | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Tuberculous Meningitis | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Bronchitis | 4 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | 3 |
| Pneumonia | 13 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | – | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Acute Tonsillitis | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Convulsions | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Meningitis | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Diarrhoea | 10 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | – | 4 | 4 |
| Congenital Debility and Atrophy | 5 | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | 1 |
| Congenital Malformation | 5 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 3 |
| Injury at Birth | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | 1 | – |
| Marasmus | 5 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 4 |
| Premature Birth | 19 | 12 | 2 | 1 | – | 4 | – | – | – | 9 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Congenital Syphilis | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Infantile Scurvy | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Intussusception | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Found Dead | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Other Causes | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | – | 1 |
| 80 | 21 | 3 | 1 | — | 20 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 11 | 13 | 34 | |