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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

Willesden 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Table: TABLE V. — INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910.Deaths front stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V. — INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1910.

Deaths front 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 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All Causes.—
Certified7722171012634212620131381614613310
Uncertified3.........3.................................3
i. Common infectious Diseases.—
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles........................1......1.........24
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough...............1............2......1138
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases.—
Diarrhoœa, all forms...............31732...133......23
Enteritis, Mucoenteritis, Gastroenteritis...1...12...421.....................9
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh......1...111111...1............7
ii. Wasting Diseases.—
Premature Birth43851576221.....................68
Congenital Defects21512293......421...1......141
Injury at Birth21......3.................................3
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation......1...11..............................2
Atrophy, Debility Marasmus1...2365...21321............20
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.—
Tuberculous Meningitis..................12......1...3...1...8
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica...1......1...1.........1.........115
Other Tuberculous Diseases...........................21............14
v. Other Causes.—
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...1...1231...1..................18
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................11......1......1...4
Convulsions221161...3...1.........2...215
Bronchitis......2...25511...3...31......21
Laryngitis.......................................1......1
Pneumonia...............33431...2421124
Suffocation, overlying11......21..............................3
Other Causes10241171212121241135
Totals802217101293421262013138l614613313
Percentage of total deaths25.67.05.43.241.210.96.78.36.44.24.22.65.14.51.94.2

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Population (estimated to middle of 1910), 153,253 Births in the year Legitimate, 3,801;
illegitimate, 122. Deaths in the year:— Legitimate infants, 285; illegitimate infants, 28.
Deaths from all Causes at all ages, 1,506.