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 Brentford and Chiswick]
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TABLE 11.
INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEiAl 1939.
Net deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year.
CAUSE OF DEATH | Under 1 week. | 1-2 weeks. | 2-3 weeks | 3-4 weeks. | I Total under 4 weeks. | 1-3 months. | 3 - 6 months. | 6-9 months. | 9-12 months. | Total under 1 year. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
2. | Chicken-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
3. | Measles | • | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
4. | Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
5. | Whooping Cough | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
6. | Diphtheria or Croup | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
7. | Erysipelas | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | ||
8. | Tuberculosis Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
9. | Abdominal Tuberculosis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
10. | Other Tuberc. Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
11. | Meningitis (non T.B.) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
12. | Convulsions | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
13. | Laryngitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
14. | Bronchitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
15. | Pneumonia (all forms) | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
16. | Diarrhoea | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
17. | Enteritis | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 4 |
18. | Gastritis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
19. | Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
20. | Suffocation, overlying | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
21. | Injury at Birth | 3 | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
22. | Atelectasis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
23. | Congenital Malformation | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
24. | 7 | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | 7 | |
25. | Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 |
26. | Pemphigus Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
27. | 1* | - | - | - | l | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | |
TOTALS | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 30 |
* Murder.
BIRTHS:- Legitimate 686
Illegitimate 45
DEATHS:- Legitimate 24
Illegitimate 6
INFANTILE MORTALITY RATE PER 1,000 Births = 41