Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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Infantile Mortality during the Year 1906.
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 Months | 9-10 Months. | 10-11 Months. | 11-12 Months. | Total under 1 Year. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes. | Certified | |||||||||||||||||
| Uncertified | ||||||||||||||||||
| Com moil In fectious Diseases | Small Pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Chicken Pox | ||||||||||||||||||
| Measles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria : Croup | ||||||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Diarrhœal Diseases | Diarrhoea, all forms | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 43 | ||||
| Enteritis (not Tuberculous) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh ) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Wasting Diseases | Premature Birth | 18 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 21 | ||||||||||||
| Congenital Defects | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | 6 | 6 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Want of Breast Milk | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Atrophy,Debility, Marasmus | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Diseases | Tuberculous Meningitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonis: Tabes Mesenterica | ||||||||||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | ||||||||||||||||||
| Syphilis | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Rickets | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Meningitis (not I uberculous) | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Convulsions | 4 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 | |||||||
| Laryngitis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Suffocation overlaying | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Other Causes | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 31 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 47 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 127 | |