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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

Croydon 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE V.Borough of Croydon— Whole District.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1903.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V.

Borough of Croydon— Whole District.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1903.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Wcks.3-4 Weeks.Total Numbtr 1 Montn.1-2 Months.2-3 Months.3-4 Mon hs.4-5 Months.5-6 Mom J is.6-7 Months.7-8 Month*.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-ir Months.11-12 Monrhs.Total Deaths Under One Year
All Causes. Certified78819111164445161421222124141716372
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases. Small pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles....................................41117
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria : Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............1411233......3321
Diar hœal Diseases. Diarrhoea, all forms......3143632427324242
Enteritis, (not Tuberculous)...............141...1311......113
Gastritis......112111............1.........6
Wasting Diseases. Prem iture Birth4157255622...1..................66
Congenital Defects521...811......1...1......1...13
Injury at Birth3.........3.................................3
Want of Breast-millc...............3..............................3
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus8...24141213344122...156
Tuberculous Diseases. Tuberculous Meningitis...........................14......1...17
Tuberculous Feiitonitis: Tabes Mesenteriea...........................11...............2
Other Tuberculous D'ses........................111111...17
Erysipelas......1...1............1..................2
Syphilis...............1.....................1......2
Rickets.......................................1...12
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................1.....................113
Convulsions6...2...815412......211...25
Bronchitis......123841...22133...128
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia11......2...2...3244433330
Suffocation, overlaying .2.........232...1.....................8
Other Causes12...11143......1...113...2126
78819111164445161423222124141716372

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Births in the year
legitimate 3714
illegitimate 180
Population.
Estlmated to middle of 1905
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 1882 147704