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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

Brentford and Chiswick 1939

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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TABLE 11.
INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEiAl 1939.

Table: Net deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year.

Net deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year.

CAUSE OF DEATHUnder 1 week.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks3-4 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------1-12
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---12
16.Diarrhoea----------
17.Enteritis--1-112--4
18.Gastritis----------
19.Rickets----------
20.Suffocation, overlying----------
21.Injury at Birth3--14----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
TOTALS1312117551230

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* Murder.
BIRTHS:- Legitimate 686
Illegitimate 45
DEATHS:- Legitimate 24
Illegitimate 6
INFANTILE MORTALITY RATE PER 1,000 Births = 41