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Acton 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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1928
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TABLE 4.
INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1928.
| 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—2 months | North East | North West | South East | South West | |
| Measles | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Bronchitis | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| Pneumonia | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| Convulsions | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Diarrhoea | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| Asyphxia | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Congenital Debility and Atrophy | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Congenital Malformation | 2 | 1 | I | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Marasmus | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Premature Birth | 12 | 9 | 1 | 1 | l | 3 | 9 | 6 | |||||
| Injury at Birth | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Cerebral Abscess | 1 | 1 . | 1 | ||||||||||
| Meningitis | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 55 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 29 | |