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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
East Ham 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Table 4.—INFANT DEATHS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE, 1947.
| Cause of Death. | Total deaths. | Age and Sex. | Total under 1 year. | Wards. | Deaths in Institutions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 week. | 1—2 weeks. | 1 2—3 weeks. | 3—4 weeks. | 1—3 months. | 3—6 months. | 6—9 months. | 9—12 months. | Manor Park. | Little Ilford. | Woodgrange. | Plashet. | Kensington. | Castle. | Central. | Wall End. | Greatfield. | South. | |||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Other T.B. Diseases | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Syphilitic Diseases | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Influenza | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Bronchitis | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 17 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 5 | - | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | |
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis | 9 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 7 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Premature Births | 17 | 10 | 6 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 16 |
| Congenital Debility, Malformations, Birth Injuries and Infantile Diseases | 29 | 10 | 8 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 14 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 18 |
| Other Causes | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 4 |
| All Causes | 85 | 21 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | - | 54 | 31 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 59 |