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 |