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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BIRTHS - Legitimate 535 DEATHS - Legitimate 28
Illegitimate 50 Illegitimate 2
INFANTILE MORTALITY RATE PER 1,000 BIRTHS = 51
TABLE 11.
INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1941.
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 week | 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. Tuberculous 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 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 16. Diarrhoea | - | - | ||||||||
| 17. Enteritis | - | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 18. Gastritis | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| 19. Rickets | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| 20. Suffocation, overlying | - | - | ||||||||
| 21. Injury at Birth | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 22. Atelectasis | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| 23. Congenital Malformation | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 5 | ||||
| 24. Premature Birth | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | - | - | 8 | |||
| 25. Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus | - | - | 1 | |||||||
| 26. Pemphigus Neonatorum | - | - | ||||||||
| 27. Other Causes | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||
| TOTALS | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 1 | - | 30 |