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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

Leyton 1942

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]

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Table: TABLE 9.Infantile Mortality During the Year 1942—Wards.

TABLE 9.

Infantile Mortality During the Year 1942—Wards.

CAUSE OF DEATH.Leyton.Lea Bridge.Central North.Central South.Forest.Leyton-stone.Grove Green.Harrow Green.Cann Hall.Wan-stead Slip.Ward not known.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
Smallpox....................................
Chickenpox....................................
Measles.........1.....................1
Scarlet fever....................................
Whooping cough....................................
Diphtheria and croup....................................
Influenza....................................
Tuberculous meningitis....................................
Abdominal tuberculosis....................................
Other tuberculous diseases....................................
Meningitis (not tuberculous)...........................1...1
Convulsions1..............................1
Laryngitis.................................
Bronchitis.........1...1......1......3
Pneumonia (all forrns)431...31......32...20
Diarrhoea.........1...............1...2
Enteritis...1...2............1......4
Gastritis....................................
Syphilis....................................
Rickets....................................
Suffocation, overlying....................................
Injury at birth1......1...4...............7
Atelectasis...............1......1......3
Congenital malformations1211...............1...6
Premature birth141243.........1...19
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus.........2.....................3
Other causes......111..................3
Totals8105128102666...73