London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Stepney 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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| Suicide | 27 |
| Affecting Children . (under 5 years of age):— | |
| Accidents | 23 |
| Accidents and Inattention at Birth | 13 |
| Accidental Suffocation by clothes in cradle | 3 |
| Asphyxia due to pressure of foreign body in windpipe | 1 |
| Atelectasis | 1 |
| Bronchitis | 7 |
| Burns and Scalds | 31 |
| Congenital defects | 4 |
| Convulsions | 67 |
| Croup | 1 |
| Dentition | 1 |
| Diarrhoea | 40 |
| Diphtheria | 2 |
| Enlarged Thymus Gland | 4 |
| Haemophilia | 1 |
| Heart Failure | 1 |
| Improper feeding | 5 |
| Inanition | 10 |
| Intestinal Obstruction | 1 |
| Laryngismus Stridulus | 1 |
| Laryngitis | 1 |
| Marasmus | 6 |
| Measles | 13 |
| Meningitis | 4 |
| Meningeal Haemorrhage | 1 |
| Middle Ear Disease | 1 |
| Murder | 2 |
| Nephritis | 1 |
| Overlain in bed by parents | 41 |
| Peritonitis | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 6 |
| Premature births | 16 |
| Ptomaine poisoning | 2 |