Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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Table 5.—Infant Mortality during the Year 1956. Causes of death, at various ages, of infants under one year.
Cause of Death | Under 1 Week | 1-2 Weeks | 2-3 Weeks | 3-4 Weeks | Total under 4 W'ks | 1-3 Months | 3-6 Months | 6-9 Months | 9-12 Months | Total under 1 year | Deaths in the Borough | Deaths outside Borough |
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Hydrops Foetalis | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Meningitis, Encephalocele | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Atelectasis | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
Staphylococcal Pneumonia — | ||||||||||||
Fibrocystic disease of Pancreas | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | l |
Cerebral Hæmorrhage | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | 4 |
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
Incidence of Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
Comparison between the incidence of certain of the notifiable
infectious diseases in Barnes, and in London and England and Wales,
is shown on next page.