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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
Barking 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907.
| Cause of Death | Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| under 1 Week | 1-2 Wcelcs | 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 | 10-11 months | ,11-12 months | Total Deaths under One Year. | |
| All Causes-Certified | 22 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 37 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | _ | 3 | 4 | 98 |
| Common Infectious Diseases- | |||||||||||||||||
| Measles | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Diarrheal -Diarrhoea, allfora | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 11 |
| Wasting Diseases-Premature Birth | 15 | 2 | 2 | - | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 |
| Congential Defects | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 |
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 4 | 6 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 18 |
| Tuberculous Diseases- | |||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Tuberculous Peritonitis :Tabes | |||||||||||||||||
| Mesenterica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 |
| Other Causes- Syphilis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Convulsions | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 7 |
| Bronchitis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 |
| Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 8 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 9 |
| Suffocation, overlying | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 6 |
| 22 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 37 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | - | 3 | 4 | 98 | |
Births in the year, legitimate 850, illegitimate 18. Deaths in the year of legitimate infanta, 97 illegitimate infants 1.
Population, estimated to middle of 1907, 29,500. Deaths from all Causes at all ages 320.