London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wood Green 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

21
Infantile Mortality during the Year 1907.

Table: Deaths from Stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Yearof Age.

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.2-6 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 1 Year.
All Causes.Certified...................................................
Uncertified...................................................
Common Infectious DiseasesSmall Pox...................................................
Chicken Pox...................................................
Measles....................................1.........1
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup.......................................2......2
Whooping Cough.........11...111...1......1......6
Diarrhœa, all forms...............12...1...1......1...17
Diarrhœal DiseasesEnteritis, Muco-...............1...............1...1......3
enteritis, Gastro
enteritis
Gastritis, Gastro-
intestinal Catarrh...................................................
Wasting DiseasesPremature Birth171132211...........................24
Congenital Defects8...1...9......1......1...............11
Injury at Birth3.........3.................................3
Want of Breast..................2...........................2
Milk, Starvation Atrophy,Debility,...2......21111...1...............7
Tuberculous DiseasesMarasmus Tuberculous...................................................
Meningitis ) Tuberculous Peri-..................1...........................1
Mesenterica Other Tubercu-.......................................1......1
lous Diseases Ervsipelas...................................................
Syphilis.......................................1......1
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).......................................1......1
Convulsions...1...12..................1............3
Bronchitis111...322...3...21...3...218
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............2...............2............4
Suffocation,...................................................
overlaying
Other Causes...............11............1......2...5
Totals295354291136...6611123100

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Population (estimated to middle of 1907), 49,000.
Births in the year—Legitimate, 1,437; Illegitimate, 12.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 565.