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Southwark 1907

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

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TABLE 13.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ST. JOHN'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 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 One Year.
AllCausesCertified946524137653369135498
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox................................................
Measles...........................1......2...128
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)....................................1............
Whooping Cough...............2...1...............12...6
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases(Diarrhoea, all forms...............1111......1...2......7
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis..................2............1............3
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..................l............1............2
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth313...92..............................11
Congenital Defects211...41..............................5
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation.........11.................................1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus.........17111111...31......17
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.................................1...l......2
Tuberculous Peritonitis:...................................................
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases.....................1.........1............2
v. Other causes.Erysipelas...............l..............................1
Syphilis...............l..............................1
Rickets................... . ...............................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions............3...1...........................4
Bronchitis...............ll111......2......18
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............3...12...11142116
Suffocation, overlying...................................................
Other causes..............................1......2......3
946524137653369135498

District (or sub-division) of St. John. Population, Estimated to middle of 1907, 22,555. Births in the year. Legitimate, 645; Illegitimate, 15.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 96; Illegitimate Infants, 2. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 413.