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Harrow 1908

[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 DeathDeaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of AgeTotal Deaths under One Year
Under 1 Week1-2 Weeks2-3 Weeks3-4 WeeksTotal under 1 Month.1-2 Months2-3 Months3-4 Months4-5 Months6-7 Months8-9 Months9-lo Months10-11 Months.
Certified1933
Chicken-pox
Measles
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria : Croup
Whooping Cough1
Diarrhoea, all forms112
Enteritis, Mucoenteritis, Gastroenteritis111
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh
Premature Birth9312
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 Causes222111
1933

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.