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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
Heston and Isleworth 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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TABLE III
INFANTS' DEATHS ACCORDING TO AGE AND CAUSE, 1955
| Cause of Death | Age | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Days | Months | |||||||||||||||||||||
| under 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7=13 | 14- 20 | 21-28 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||
| Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Bronchitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Birth injuries | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Atelectasis & birth asphyxia | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 |
| Congenital malformations | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 7 |
| Prematurity | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 |
| Lung abscess | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Meningitis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Haemorrhagic disease | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| TOTAL | 11 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 29 |