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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 Death | Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age | Total Deaths under One Year | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.