[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich] page 31

Woolwich 1924

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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TABLE No. 23. INFANT DEATHS, 1924.

Cause of Death.	The Borough.		Woolwich.		West Plumstead.		East Plumstead.		Eltham.
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.
	Small-pox	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Chicken-pox	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Measles	5	1	4	1	..	..	..	..	..	..
Scarlet Fever	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Whooping Cough	1	6	1	..	..	3	..	2	..	1
Diphtheria and Croup	..	..	..	..	..	...	..	..	..	..
Erysipelas	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Tuberculous Meningitis	2	2	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..
Abdominal Tuberculosis	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Other Tuberculous Diseases	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)	l	2	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	1
Convulsions	2	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Laryngitis	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Bronchitis	11	4	8	2	2	..	1	1	..	1
Pneumonia (all forms)	11	14	4	7	2	..	1	3	4	4
Diarrhoea	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Enteritis	7	3	4	1	..	1	2	..	1	1
Gastritis	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Syphilis	3	1	2	..	..	1	..	..	..	...
Rickets	. .	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Suffocation, Overlying		1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..
Injury at Birth	3	3	..	1	1	1	..	..	2	1
Atelectasis	2	4	..	1	..	..	1	2	1	1
Congenital Malformation	6	7	1	..	..	2	2	2	3	3
Premature Birth	11	15	3	2	1	4	4	6	3	3
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus	11	9	6	2	3	2	2	2	..	3
Other Causes	10	⁶	²	3	3	..	2	3	3	..
	87	81	40	21	13	16	16	22	18	22
	168		61		29		38		40