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Finchley 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]
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INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1949
Deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year of age
| CAUSE OF DEATH | Under 1 week | 1-2 weeks | 2-3 weeks | 3-4 weeks | Total under 4 weeks | 4 weeks and under 3 months | 3-6 months | 6-9 months | 9-12 months | TOTAL | WARDS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | E | w | ||||||||||||
| All Causes | Certified | 9 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 | ||||
| Uncertified | ||||||||||||||
| Smallpox | ||||||||||||||
| Chicken Pox | ||||||||||||||
| Measles | ||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | ||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria & Croup | ||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | ||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Meningitis | ||||||||||||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | ||||||||||||||
| Convulsions | ||||||||||||||
| Laryngitis | ||||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | ||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia (all forms) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Diarrhoea | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Enteritis | ||||||||||||||
| Gastritis | ||||||||||||||
| Syphilis | ||||||||||||||
| Rickets | ||||||||||||||
| Suffocation, Overlying | ||||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | ||||||||||||||
| Atelectasis | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Congenital Malformations | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Premature Birth | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus | ||||||||||||||
| Other causes | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| TOTALS | 9 | . | 1 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 | |||