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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 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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TABLE V.
Infantile Mortality during the Year 1907. Deaths from stated causes in Weeks and Months under 1 Year of Age.
| Causes of Death. | Under 1 week | 1-2 week | 2-3 week | 3-4 week | Total 1 Month. | 1-2 week | 2-3 week | 3-4 week | 4-5 week | 5-6 week | 6-7 week | 7-8 week | 8-9 week | 9-10 week | 10-11 week | 11-12 week | Total Deths undert 1 year. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 5 | 3 | 2 | - | 26 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 65 | ||
| Common Infectious Diseases | Small-pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chicken-pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Measles | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Scarlet Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Diarrhœal Diseases | Whooping Cough | — | — | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Diarrhœa, all forms | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Enteritis, 'Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wasting Diseases | Premature Birth | 11 | 3 | 1 | — | 15 | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 19 |
| Congenital Defects | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | —— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Injury at Birth | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Want of Breast-milk, Starvation | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | |
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 4 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | |