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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
West Ham 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD TABLE—V.
Infantile Mortality during the year 1907.
Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.
| CAUSE OF DEATH. | Under 1 Week. | 1 to 2 Weeks. | 2 to 3 Weeks. | 3 to 4 Weeks. | Total under 1 Month. | 1 to 2 Months. | 2 to 3 Months. | 3 to 4 Months. | 4 to 5 Months. | 5 to 6 Months. | 6 to 7 Months. | 7 to 8 Months. | 8 to 9 Months. | 9 to 10 Months. | 10 to 11 Months. | 11 to 12 Months. | Total Deaths under 1 Year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes— | |||||||||||||||||
| Certified | 191 | 52 | 55 | 37 | 335 | 136 | 110 | 75 | 61 | 72 | 70 | 49 | 62 | 64 | 59 | 62 | 1,155 |
| Uncertified | |||||||||||||||||
| Common Infectious Diseases— | |||||||||||||||||
| Small-pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Chicken-pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Measles | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 26 |
| Scarlet Fever | |||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Whooping Cough | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 6S |
| Diarrhœl Diseases— | |||||||||||||||||
| Diarrhœa, all forms | 1 | 1 | 9 | 16 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 123 | |||
| Enteritis, Muco- Enteritis, | |||||||||||||||||
| Gastro-Enteritis | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | ... | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 35 | |||
| Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal | |||||||||||||||||
| Catarrh | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 25 | ||||
| Wasting Diseases— | |||||||||||||||||
| Premature Birth | 99 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 134 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 153 | ||||||||
| Congenital Defects | 14 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | i | 33 | ||||||
| Injury at Birth | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Want of Breast-milk, Starvation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 50 | 17 | 17 | 10 | 94 | 32 | 21 | 9 | 9 | "7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 198 |
| Tuberculous Diseases— | |||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Meningitis | 1 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14 | |||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis: | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |||||||||
| Tabes Mesenterica | |||||||||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 16 | ||||||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | J | ••• | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||
| Syphilis | 2 | ... | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | 11 | |||||||
| Rickets | 1 | 2 | 1 | IB | 1 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | ||||||||
| Convulsions | 5 | "4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 36 | ||
| Bronchitis | 7 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 25 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 122 | ||
| Laryngitis | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 4 | "2 | 1 | ii | 14 | ii | 12 | 16 | 16 | 12? | |
| Suffocation, overlaying | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 23 | ||||
| Other Causes | 19 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 31 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 97 |
| 191 | 52 | 55 | 37 | 335 | 130 | 110 | 75 | 61 | 72 | 70 | 49 | 62 | 64 | 59 | 62 | 1,155 |
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