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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
Ealing 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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Infantile Mortality during the Year 1910.
Deaths from Stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.
BOROUGH OF EALING.
| Causes 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. | Total Deaths under One Year. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Certified | 27 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 36 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 83 |
| Causes | Uncertified | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Common Infectious Diseases- | ||||||||||||||||||
| Measles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Whooping Cough | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Diarrhceal Diseases - | ||||||||||||||||||
| Diarrhoea, all forms | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | |
| Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro | ||||||||||||||||||
| enteritis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | |
| Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Wasting Diseases- | ||||||||||||||||||
| Premature Birth | 18 | 2 | - | 1 | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | |
| Congenital Defects | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | |
| Injury at Birth | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Want of Breast-milk, Starvation | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 13 | |
| Tuberculous Diseases- | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Tuberculous Peritonitis Tabes Mesenterica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | ||
| Syphilis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | 1 | |
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Convulsions | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | |
| Bronchitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | |
| Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | |
| Suffocation, Overlying | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | |
| Other Causes | 4 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 11 | |
| 27 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 36 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 83 | ||
District (or sub-division) of Ealing. Population (estimated to middle of 1910) 54 259.
Births in the year
legitimate 1,235.
illegitimate 37.
Deaths in the year of
legitimate infants
illegitimate infants
93.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 533.