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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

Barnes 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]

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Table: TABLE V.Infantile Mortality during the Year 1909. Deaths from stated causes in Weeks and Months under 1 Year of Age.

TABLE V.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1909. Deaths from stated causes in Weeks and Months under 1 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 1 year.
All Causes1524324104-5464333-66
Common Infectious DiseasesSmall-pox-----------------
Chicken-pox-----------------
Measles-------------1--1
Scarlet Fever-----------------
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)-----------1----1
Whooping Cough------1-1--1-1--4
Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhœa, all forms-----21-12-1111-10
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis--1122----------4
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh-----------------
Wasting DiseasesPremature Birth811111---1-------12
Congenital Defects-----------------
Injury at Birth-----------------
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation-----------------
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus3-1-41----------5