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 1920.
Under 1 week. | 1 to 2 weeks. | 2 to 3 weeks. | 3 to 4 weeks. | Total under 1 month. | 1 to 3 months. | 3 to 6 months. | 6 to 9 months. | 9 to 12 months. | Total under 1 year. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Chicken Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Measles | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 |
Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria and Croup | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Whooping Cough | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 |
Diarrhœa | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Enteritis | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | 9 |
Tuberculous Meningitis . | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 3 |
Abdominal Tuberculosis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Other Tuberculous | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diseases Congcnital Malformations | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Premature Birth | 4 | - | - | - | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | 6 |
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus | 6 | 3 | - | 2 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 16 |
Atelectasis | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
Injury at Birth | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Syphilis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Convulsions | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Gastritis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Laryngitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Bronchitis | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Pneumonia (all forms) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 3 |
Suffocation, overlying | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Other Causes | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 4 |
14 | 4 | - | 5 | 23 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 56 |