Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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INFANT MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1924.
The following table gives the actual causes of death of children dying under one year of age.
Net deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year:—
Causes of Death. (.All causes certified.) | Under 1 week. | 1—2 weeks. | 2—3 weejvs. | 3—4 weeks. | Total under 4 weeks. | 4 weeks and under 3 months. | 3 months and under ti months. | (> months and under 9 months. | 9 month? and under 12 months. | Total under one year. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Chicken Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Measles | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Whooping Cough | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
Diphtheria and Croup | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
Tubercular Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Other Tuburcular diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Meningitis (not tubercular) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Convulsions | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
Laryngitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Bronchitis | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 4 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
Diarrhœa | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
Gaslritis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Syphilis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — |
Suffocation, overlaying | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Injury at birth | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Atelectasis | 4 | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
Congenital malformation | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 |
Premature Birth | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 19 | - | - | - | - | 19 |
Atrophy, debility and Marasmus | - | - | - | _ | - | 1 | - | 1 | _ | 2 |
Other causes | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 7 |
Totals | 19 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 72 |
Nett Uirths in the year :—
Legitimate 826
Illegitimate 20
Nett Deaths in the year
Legitimate 09
Illegitimate 3