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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—South 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—South Ward District. INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905.

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

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total Number 1 Month.1 -2 Mooths.2-3 Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 M< nth .8-9 Month.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Monrhs.Total Deaths Under One Year.
All Causes. Certified6...3110732...132132...34
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases. Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria : Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough..................1............I......1...3
Diarrhoeal Diseases. Diarrhoea, all forms......1...1........................11...3
Enteritis, (not Tuberculous)..............................1...............1
Gastritis..................1...........................1
Wasting Diseases. Premature Birth1...1...2.................................2
Congenital Defects1.........1..............................1
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1.........14...1...1..................7
Tuberculous Diseases. Tuberculous Meningitis.......................................1......1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenteriea...................................................
Other Tuberculous D'ses...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions..................11........................2
Bronchitis.........11.....................11......3
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia..............................21............3
Suffocation, overlaying...............1..............................1
Other Causes2...1...32..............................5
6...3110732...132132...34

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Births in the year 384.
Population.
Estimated to middle of 1905
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 197.
19,404.