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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
Heston and Isleworth 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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Infantile Mortality during the year 1920.
| Under 1 week | 1-2 weeks | 2-3 weeks | 3-4 weeks | Total under 4 weeks. | 4 week* and under 3 mts. | 3 mts. and under 6 mts. | 6 mts. and 1 under 9 mts.l | 9 mts. and under 12 mts. | Total Deaths under 1 year. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All causes | Certified | 1 | 4 | 24 | 5 | ||||||||
| Uncertified | |||||||||||||
| Smallpox | |||||||||||||
| Chickenpox | |||||||||||||
| Measles | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | |||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | |||||||||||||
| Diphtheria and Croup | |||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | |||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Meningitis | |||||||||||||
| Abdominal Tuberculosis | |||||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | |||||||||||||
| Convulsions | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Laryngitis | |||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Pneumonia (all forms) | ... | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| Diarrhoea | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Enteritis | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gastritis | |||||||||||||
| Syphilis | |||||||||||||
| Rickets | |||||||||||||
| Suffocation, overlying | |||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | |||||||||||||
| Atelectasis | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Congenital Malformations | |||||||||||||
| Premature Birth | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus | |||||||||||||
| Other Causes | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Nett Births | Legitimate | Nett Deaths | Legitimate infants | ||||||||||
| Illegitimate | 36 | Illegitimate infants | |||||||||||