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Southwark 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 10INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ST. MARY'S WARD.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.__

TABLE 10

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ST. MARY'S WARD.

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 Months3-4 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 CausesCertified264543914445328353393
Uncertified..............................1..................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox......
Chicken-pox................................................3
Measles........................1.....................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)................................................7
Whooping Cough......1...13......1......1......1...6
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms.....................1211...............5
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis1.........11......11...............11
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh............1.................................19
Premature Birth1312319.................................4
iii. Wasting Diseases.Congenital Defects3.........31..............................2
Injury at Birth2................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus5...1...63...3...............1......16
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.................................1...............
Tuberculous Peritonitis:11
Tabes Mesenterica......
Other Tuberculous Diseases.......................................2......2
V Other causes.Erysipelas.................................1............1
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).................................1............1
Convulsions1...1......1.....................1......5
Bronchitis...............2...............11.........4
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia............211............22......111
Suffocation, overlying...............2.................................
Other causes11......2.........1.....................3
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District (or sub-division) of St. Mary. Population, Estimated to middle of 1907, 22,118. Births in the year. Legitimate, 6(50; Illegitimate, 17.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 90; Illegitimate Infants, 4 Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 405.