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 Stepney]
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| Cause of Death. | Under 1 Week. | 1-2 Weeks. | 2-3 Weeks. | 3-4 Weeks. | Total under 1 Month. | 1-3 Months. | 3-6 Months. | 0-9 Months. | 9-12 Months. | Total Deaths under One Year. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certified | ||||||||||||||
| Uncertified | ||||||||||||||
| Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
| Chicken-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
| Measles | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
| Whooping Cough | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
| Diphtheria and Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
| Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
| Tuberculous Meningitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
| Abdominal Tuberculosis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
| Convulsions | 6 | .. | ||||||||||||
| Laryngitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
| Bronchitis | 1 | .. | .. | |||||||||||
| Pneumonia (all forms) | .. | .. | ||||||||||||
| Diarrhoea | .. | .. | .. | |||||||||||
| Enteritis | 2 | .. | ||||||||||||
| Gastritis | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
| Syphilis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
| Rickets | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||
| Suffocation, overlying | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||||
| Atelectasis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||||
| Congenital Malformations | .. | .. | .. | |||||||||||
| Premature Birth | .. | .. | .. | |||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus | .. | |||||||||||||
| Other causes | .. | .. | ||||||||||||
| Nett Births in the year | Nett Deaths in the year of | legitimate infants, 322 | ||||||||||||
| illegitimate, 56 | illegitimate infants, 26 | |||||||||||||
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