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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 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 22.
INFANT MORTALITY, 1904-1923,
Rates for stated Groups of Diseases and for stated Age Periods in Quinquennial Periods
and for the year 1923.
| Quinquennial Periods. | Groups. | Totaxs. | Sub-Divisions of Group " G." | Death-Rates. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Congenital defects. | Prematurity. | Debility. | Under 4 weeks. | Over 4 weeks | ||||||||||
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | |||||||
| 1904-1908 | 6.89 | 3.77 | 7.19 | 18.90 | 23.73 | 1.36 | 41.39 | 8.83 | 11206 | 5.41 | 21.55 | 14.43 | 39.55 | 72.51 |
| 1909-1913 | 5.13 | 2.53 | 5.56 | 1399 | 12.66 | 1.27 | 32.42 | 9.71 | 83.27 | 4.71 | 16.60 | 1111 | 32.70 | 50.57 |
| 1914-1918 | 6.28 | 1.78 | 3.50 | 19.84 | 9.21 | 1.36 | 33.83 | 9.92 | 85.72 | 3.21 | 20.42 | 10.20 | 34.26 | 51.46 |
| 1919-1923 | 2.86 | •98 | 2.86 | 10.78 | 6.95 | •90 | 27.33 | 9.87 | 62.53 | 344 | 15.97 | 7.92 | 29.16 | 33.37 |
| 1923 | 1.39 | •35 | 3.49 | 5.23 | 2.79 | •35 | 21.97 | 7.33 | 42.90 | 3.48 | 14.30 | 4.19 | 25.11 | 17.79 |
The rates in each case are per 1,000 births.