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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 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE III.— continued.

TABLE III.— continued.

INFANT MORTALITY.Deaths in BROAD GREEN WARD.CENTRAL WARD.
CAUSES OF DEATH.Under 1 Week1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1-3 Months.3-6 Months.6-9 Months.9-12 Months.Total Deaths umder 1 Year.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeka.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1-3 Months.3-6 Month#.6-9 Months.9-12 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
All CausesCertified41......551431842...17442...17
Uncertified..........................................................
Small-pox..........................................................
Chicken-pox............................................................
Measles........................11..............................
Scarlet Fever............................................................
Whooping Cough...........................1..............................
Diphtheria and Croup............................................................
Erysipelas........................................................
Tuberculous Meningitis.....................1...1..............................
Abdominal Tuberculosis............................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases............................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)............................................................
Convulsions..........................................1...............
Laryngitis............................................................
Bronchitis............................................................
Pneumonia (all forms)...............111...3..................11...2
Diarrhoea Enteritis & Gastro Enteritis............1...214..................2......2
Gastritis............................................................
Syphilis..........................................1......1
Rickets.......................................................
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Injury at Birth1.........1............1..............................
Atelectasis.........................................................
Congenital Malformations2.........21.........3..................1......1
Premature Birth11......2............23.........3............3
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus........................11.........111.........2
Other causes...............1.........111......22.........4
41......551431842...17442...17

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326
*Gross Births in the year
legitimate, 535.
illegitimate, 10.
Nett Deaths in the year
legitimate infants, 17.
illegitimate infants, 1.
Gross
Births
legitimate, 181.
illegitimate, 1.
Nett
Heaths
legitimate infants, 15.
illegitimate infants, 2.
*The figures of inward and outward transfers are not available for the wards.