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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

Teddington 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Teddington]

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Table: TABLE V.—Teddington Urban District.Infantile Mortality during the Year 1906. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V.—Teddington Urban District.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1906. 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 Months9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All CausesCertified72121255654223...4452
Uncertified1.........1.................................1
Common Injections Diseases:
Small-pox
Chicken-pox
Measles........................1.....................1
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria: Croup
Whooping Cough .............................................1...1
Diarrheal Diseases:
Diarrhœa, all forms...1......124132111......117
Enteritis,Muco-enteritis
Gastro-enteritis
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...........................l..................1
Wasting Diseases:
Premature Birth61...181..............................9
Congenital Defects1.........1.................................1
Injury at Birth
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1...1...2l...1............1...117
Tuberculous Diseases:
Tuberculous Meningitis.............................................11
Tuberculous Peritonitis:
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases
Other Causes:
Erysipelas
Syphilis
Rickets..................1...............1.........2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).....................1........................1
Convulsions.....................1...1...............13
Bronchitis.........11......11.....................3
Laryngitis
Pneumonia...............l............1.........2...4
Suffocation, overlying
Other Causes.....................1.........1............2
82121355654223...4453

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District of Teddington Population, estimated to middle of 1906. 17,000.
Births in the year
Legitimate, 430.
Illegitimate. 8.
Deaths in the year of
Legitimate Infants, 48.
Illegitimate „ 5.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 238.