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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

Woolwich 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE IY b.I nfantile M ortality during the Y ear 1909.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE IY b.

I nfantile M ortality during the Y ear 1909.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Cause of Death.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1-2 Months.2-3 Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under 1 year.
All Causes
Certified
UncertifiedNilNil
Common Infectious Diseases—
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox.................................1............1
Measles..................1......112...24314
Scarlet Fever..........................................1...1
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup).............................................11
Whooping Cough...........................1...1...1115
Diarrhoeal Diseases—
Diarrhoea, all forms...............3221...1...1......111
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis......1121.........11...............5
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh....................................1.........1
Wasting Diseases—
Premature Birth352......3721......1..................41
Congenital Defects101......1112.........1...1.........16
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...............1..............................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus513615835411221...143
Tuberculous Diseases—
Tuberculous Meningitis.......................................1...12
Tuberculous Peritonitis, Tabes Mesenterica..................1...........................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases........................2...11...1......5
Other Causes—
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis......1...131.........1...............6
Rickets........................1.....................1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................1.........1...1......3
Convulsions24......6312...1111.........16
Bronchitis...1124622...211215228
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...2...1341.........21432222
Suffocation, overlying...1......1.................................1
Other Causes24......61...22111............14
551661087331514109121212111312240
Five years, 1905-937195777661917912110889859083748261671658
Population, Estimated to middle of 1909, 127,993. Legitimate, 2865 Legitimate infants, 221. in the year : Illegitimate 22 Deaths in the year of Illegitimate, 19. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 1585.