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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 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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INFANTILE MORTALITY IN WEST WARD.

Table: Table B.

Table B.

YEAR.19061907190819091910191119131914Total.
DEATHS.Legitimate 1201071279102997781
Illegitimate 24121113108119
144119122921121078890874
BIRTHS.Legitimate 83586589084679c769799757
Illegitimate 332727613433043
8688929179078248008298006837
INFANTILE MORTALITY.1663313310135124106113138
DISEASES.
Smallpox ........................0
Chicken-pox........................0
Measles3...821......320
Scarlet Fever........................O
Whooping Cough353238...327
Diphtheria and Croup11...............13
Erysipelas ........................0
Tuberculous Meningitis424113......18
Abdominal Tuberculosis...2.........1......2
Other Tuberculous Diseases22116.........3
Meningitis...631...1......11
Convulsions 985653...951
Laryngitis1.....................1
Bronchitis61459967561
Pneumonia713119978771
Diarrhoea 39412413041094
Enteritis1174861110562
Gastritis 1...81431319
Syphilis 2212......1310
Rickets...............3...2
Suffocition (overlying)2...312...1110
Injury at Birth 1.........1...2...4
Atelectasis ...............31...3
Congenital Malformations311961033346
Premature Birth 2020192335262431188
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus24T8201191071413
Other Causes 74651043544
TOTALS 144119122921121078890874