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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—Thornton Heath Sub-Division 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—Thornton Heath Sub-Division 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 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-ix Months.11-12 Monrhs.Total Deaths Under One Year.
All Causes.
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Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious Diseases.
Small pox...................................................
Chicken pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria : Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough..................1.........1............13
Diar hœal Diseases.
Diarrhoea, all forms.............................................11
Enteritis, (not Tuberculous)..................1...........................1
Gastritis.....................I........................1
Wasting Diseases.
Premature Birth61......71..............................8
Congenital Defects...........................1...1............2
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk...................................................
Atiophy, Debility, Marasmus1......1222.........1...1......8
Tuberculous Diseases.
Tuberculous Meningitis..............................1...............1
Tuberculous Pe:itonitis:
Tabes Mesenteriea..............................1...............1
Oiher Tuberculous D'ses...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...............1..............................1
Rickets................................................1
M ningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions......1...1.....................1.........2
Bronchitis....................................11......2
J.arvngitis...................................................
Pneumonia........................1...11......115
Suffocation, overlaying...............1..............................1
Other Causes...................................................
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Population.
Estimated to middle of 1905
Births in the year 46b. 15,563.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 169.