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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
Fulham 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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14.
During the year 1928, one hundred and eighty-five
infants under one year of age died from the following
causes:—
Diarrhoea 50
Prematurity 39
Pneumonia 23
Atrophy 15
Convulsions 12
Whooping Cough 7
Bronchitis 8
Congenital Malformation 6
Non-tubercular Meningitis 4
Tuberculosis 2
Measles 2
Suffocation 2
Other Causes 15
During the year 1927 a hundred and sixty-two
infants died. The infantile mortality in 1928 was 77
per thousand births compared with 66 per thousand in
1927.
The cause of the increase during 1928 was the number of deaths due to diarrhoea; this is seen in the following table which sets out the total number of deaths of infants from all causes and the deaths from diarrhoea during the years 1923 to 1927.
| Infantile deaths from all causes in the Borough. | Deaths from Diarrhoea. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 199 | 21 |
| 1924 | 214 | 18 |
| 1925 | 211 | 36 |
| 1926 | 173 | 28 |
| 1927 | 162 | 16 |
| 1928 | 185 | 50 |
Diarrhoea or Enteritis in infants under one year.
Fifty deaths were due to this cause and twenty-nine
of these were certified to be due to epidemic diarrhoea
or zymotic enteritis.