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 Heston and Isleworth]
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| 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 | ||
| Birth Injury | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 |
| Hyaline Membrane Syndrome | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Atelectasis and birth asphyxia .. | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 |
| Congenital malformations | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 9 |
| Prematurity | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Intrapulmonary haemorrhage | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute pneumonitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Cystic disease of pancreas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Total | 10 | 6 | 2 | 4 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 36 |