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Southwark 1907

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

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Table: TABLE 16INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ST. MICHAEL'S WARD.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 16

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ST. MICHAEL'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.
All CausesCertified2196131759108778779121
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...........................11...11......4
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)..........................................1...1
Whooping Cough........................1...l...1...126
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases[Diarrhoea, all forms.....................11...231.........9
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...2......2......1.........111......6
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth13.........20.................................21
Congenital Defects2.........2.................................4
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...1......1.................................1
[Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus32......5......11...1.........1...12
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.......................................1......1
Tuberculous Peritonitis:.....................1.........1............2
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases.....................1............1......24
v. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis1.....................2.....................3
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).......................................1......1
Convulsions1........................1...............13
Bronchitis...........................2......1.........6
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia.........11...123212234425
Suffocation, overlying1...2...4...122.....................11
Other causes..............................l...............1
2196137759108778779121

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District (or sub-division) of St. Michael. Population, Estimated to middle of 1907, 25,287. Births in the year, Legitimate, 692; Illegitimate, 21.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 113; Illegitimate Infants, 8. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 517.