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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.—continued.Borough of Croydon—West Ward District. INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V.—continued.

Borough of Croydon—West Ward District. INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905.

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

CAUSE OK DEATH.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 We-ks.3-4 Weeks.Total Number 1 Month.[-2 MootOS.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 Monrhs.Total Deaths Under One Year.
All Causes. Certified34...103471520107188912376162
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases. Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles....................................11...13
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria : Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough..................11...122......2...9
Diar'hœal Diseases. Diarrhoea, all forms.........1122312222...2120
Enteritis, [not Tuberculous)...............121...1...1.........17
Gastritis......1...11..............................2
Wasting Diseases. Premature Birth16...412111......1..................24
Congenital Defects1.........11..............................2
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus6...21916143...11...1...27
Tuberculous Diseases. Tuberculous Meningitis...........................12...............3
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenteriea ............................1..................1
Other Tuberculous D'ses...........................1...111...15
Erysipelas......1...1............1..................2
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis [not Tuberculous)..................1.....................1...2
Convulsions5...1...6132...2............1...15
Bronchitis......1...1521...221...1...116
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia1.........1......112......4......110
Suffocation, overlaying1.........112...1.....................5
Other Causes4.........41...............13.........9
34...103471520107188912376162

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Births in the year 1,446.
Population.
Estimated to middle of 1905
47,944.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 706.