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Southwark 1907

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

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Table: TABLE 15INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ALL SAINTS' WARD.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 15

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ALL SAINTS' 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.
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Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...................................................
Whooping Cough.....................1...1...2111...7
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms..................2223...1...1......12
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...1......1...1111..................5
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...............22...........................4
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth811...101..............................11
Congenital Defects2......131...1........................5
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2...2...44...3........................11
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.................................1............1
Tuberculous Peritonitis:...............1............2............14
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................1...1.........1......14
V. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis(not Tuberculous).................................1............1
Convulsions12......3...3............1............9
Bronchitis.........112......1......1...2119
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............2311...21313320
Suffocation, overlyingl......12...1...........................3
Other causes........................1..................11
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District (or sub-division) of All Saints. Population, Estimated to middle of 1907, '20,510. Births in the year, Legitimate, 717; Illegitimate, 9.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 106; Illegitimate Infants, 2. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 420.