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Brentford and Chiswick 1962

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

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Table: TABLE IIINFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1962 Net deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year

TABLE II

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1962 Net deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year

Under 1 day1 day2 days3 days4 days5 days6 days7 - 14 days14 - 21 days21-28 days1-2 months2 months3 months4 months5 months6 months7 months8 months9 months10 months11 - 12 monthsTotal under 1 year
Chicken Pox----------------------
Measles----------------------
Scarlet Fever----------------------
Whooping Cough---------------------
Diptheria or Croup--------------------
Erysipelas----------------------
Tuberculous Meningitis-_-----_--------------
Abdominal Tuberculosis----------------------
Other Tuberculous Diseases----------------------
Meningitis (Non T. B.)---------1-----------1
Convulsions-------------------~--
Laryngitis---------------------
Bronchitis Pneumonia (all---------_--1--------1
forms)-1--------1-11-------4
Diarrhoea----------------------
Enteritis----------------------
Gastritis----------------------
Rickets----------------------
Suffocation---------------------
Injury at Birth----------------------
Atelectasis----------------------
Congenital Malformation31_-_--11---1--------6
Premature Birth321-------1----------7
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus----------------------
Pemphigus Neonatorum----------------------
Smallpox----------------------
Other causes2--------------------2
TOTALS841-----112-31-------21