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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

Finchley 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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Table: Table A4. —Infantile Mortality During the Year 1905. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Table A4. —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 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 Months9-10 Months.10- 11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All Causes.Certified192...3248657234321368
Uncertified...................................................
CommonInfectiousDiseases.Smallpox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheric : Croup...................................................
Whooping cough.........11...1............11.........4
Diarrhœal, Diseases.Diarrhœa, all forms.........11...2...3...22...1......11
Enteritis...................................................
(not Tuberculous) Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh.............................................11
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth131...115112........................19
Congenital Defects1.........1...........................1...2
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast milk...................................................
Atrophy, Debility Marasmus..................2...11..................4
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis........................1.....................1
Tuberculous Peritonitis.....................1.....................12
Tabes Mesenterica...................................................
Other TuberculousDiseases...................................................
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...............1..............................1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis....................................1.........1
(not Tuberculous) Convulsions........................1.....................1
Bronchitis...............2.....................114
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...1......12...1...111............7
Suffocation, overlaying........................1.........1.........2
Other causes5.........52...1........................8
192...3248657234321368

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District of Finchley. Population estimated to middle of 1905 : 28,716.
Births in the year Legitimate, 729
743. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 285.
Illegitimate, 14