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Croydon 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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TABLE V.—Infantile Mortality during the Year 1906.

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 under 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—11 Months.11—12 Months.Totals Deaths under One Year.
All Causes—..................................
Certified..................................
Uncertified..................................
Common Infectious Diseases—..................................
Small Pox..................................
Chicken Pox..................................
Measles........................1......1
Scarlet Fever..................................
Diphtheria: Croup..................................
Whooping Cough......22....11......32..110
Diarrhœal Diseases—..................................
Diarrhoea, all forms..............5221122....15
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis....11214423112....121
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh................1..............1
Wasting Diseases—
Premature Birth15..422123..................26
Congenital Defects51118..11..........1....11
Injury at Birth2......2......................2
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation....1..1....................12
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus4..11624..112..121..20
Tuberculous Diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis..........1..............1....2
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases..............1................1
Erysipelas..........1....1..............2
Syphilis..........1..1................2
Rickets.......................1..........
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)......................1......12
Convulsions21..141..1......1........7
Bronchitis12....3....122......21..13
Laryngitis................................1
Pneumonia..2....231....2....13115
Suffocation, overlying................1............1
Other Causes....118..11....11..11115
3569959121716111055101456170

Births in the year—
Legitimate 1596.
Illegitimate 39.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 649.
Deaths in the year of—
Legitimate infants 113.
Illegitimate infants 27
Population—Estimated to middle of 1907, 60,300.