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. | 6-9 Months. | 9-12 Months. | Total Deaths under One Year. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certified | |||||||||||||
| Uncertified | |||||||||||||
| Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
| Chicken-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
| Measles | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
| Scarlet Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
| Whooping Cough | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
| Diphtheria and Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||||
| Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
| Tuberculous Meningitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
| Abdominal Tuberculosis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
| Convulsions | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | |||||||||
| Laryngitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
| Bronchitis | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Pneumonia (all forms) | .. | 3 | .. | 3 | |||||||||
| Diarrhoea | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | |||||||
| Enteritis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
| Gastritis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||
| Syphilis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | |||||
| Rickets | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
| Suffocation, overlying | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 7 | |||||||
| Injury at Birth | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||
| Atelectasis | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
| Congenital .Malformations | .. | l | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ||||
| Premature Birth | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | |||||
| Other causes | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | .. | 10 | |||||||
| 11 | |||||||||||||
| Nett Births in the year | legitimate, 1,544 | Nett Deaths in the year of | legitimate infants, 148 | ||||||||||
| illegitimate, 36 | illegitimate infants, 14 | ||||||||||||
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