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 Harrow-on-the-Hill]
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TABLE V.
INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908.
Cause of Death | Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age | Total Deaths under One Year | ||||||||||||
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Under 1 Week | 1-2 Weeks | 2-3 Weeks | 3-4 Weeks | Total under 1 Month. | 1-2 Months | 2-3 Months | 3-4 Months | 4-5 Months | 6-7 Months | 8-9 Months | 9-lo Months | 10-11 Months. | ||
Certified | 19 | 33 | ||||||||||||
Chicken-pox | ||||||||||||||
Measles | ||||||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||||||
Diphtheria : Croup | ||||||||||||||
Whooping Cough | 1 | |||||||||||||
Diarrhoea, all forms | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Enteritis, Mucoenteritis, Gastroenteritis | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh | ||||||||||||||
Premature Birth | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
Congenital Defects | ||||||||||||||
Injury at Birth | ||||||||||||||
Want of Breast milk Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | ||||||||||||||
Tuberculous Meningitis | ||||||||||||||
Tuberculous Peritonitis : Tabes | ||||||||||||||
Mesenterica Other Tuberculous | ||||||||||||||
Diseases Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | 1 | |||||||||||||
Convulsions | ||||||||||||||
Bronchitis | ||||||||||||||
Laryngitis | ||||||||||||||
Pneumonia | ||||||||||||||
Suffocation, overlaying | ||||||||||||||
Other Causes | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
19 | 33 |
Births in the year : legitimate 341; illegitimate 5.
Deaths from all Causes at all ages 114.
Population (estimated to middle of 1908) 16,132.
Deaths in the year: legitimate 33 ; illegitimate 0.
Note.—Columns in which no death has incurred have been omitted.