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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
Kingston upon Thames 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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TABLE V.
INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1905.
Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under one
Year of Age.
| Cause of Death. | 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. | 5-6 Months. | 6-7 Months. | 7-8 Months. | 8-9 Months. | 9-10 Months. | 10-11 Months. | 11-12 Months. | Total Deaths under One Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes:— Certified | 16 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 37 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | i | i | 2 | 81 |
| Uncertified | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | ||||||||
| Common Infectious Diseases:— | |||||||||||||||||
| Pemphigus | 1 | ... | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Chicken-pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Measles | ... | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | ... | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria: Croup | |||||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | |||||||||||||||||
| Diarrhœal Diseases: | |||||||||||||||||
| Diarrhoea,all forms | ... | ||||||||||||||||
| Enteritis Epidemic (not Tuberculous) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |||||||||
| Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh | |||||||||||||||||
| Wasting Diseases: | |||||||||||||||||
| Premature Birth | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 18 | |||||||||
| Congenital Defects | I | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Want of Breast-milk | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 7 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 15 | |||||||||||
| Tuberculous Diseases: Tuberculous Meningitis | |||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica | |||||||||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Syphilis | |||||||||||||||||
| Improper Feeding | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Meningitis | |||||||||||||||||
| Convulsions | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||||
| Laryngitis | |||||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Suffocation, overlaying | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Other Causes | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 18 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 40 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 91 |