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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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TABLE IV.
INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1933.
| Causes of Death. | Ages. | Wards. | |||||||||||
| Total | Under 1 week | 1-2 weeks | 2-3 weeks | 3-4 weeks | 1-3 I months | 3-6 months | 6-9 months. | 9-12 months | North East | North West | South East | South West | |
| Prematurity | 15 | 11 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Convulsions | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 4 | i | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Bronchitis | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Blue Asphyxia | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Atelectasis | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Diarrhoea | 7 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Spina Bifida | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Congenital Heart Disease | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pyloric Stenosis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Congenital Defect of Kidney | 1 | - | - | - | . - | 1 | - | - | -' | - | 1 | - | - |
| Injury at Birth | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Overlaying | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Accidental Scalds | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| TOTALS | 41 | 16 | 3 2 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 3 3 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 7 | ||