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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

Southwark 1907

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

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Table: TABLE 17.INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ST. JUDE S WARD.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 17.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ST. JUDE 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 CausesCertified8141145222333543450
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...................................................
Whooping Cough.............................................11
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms..............................1...............2
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis.....................11.........1.........4
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth4.........4.................................5
Congenital Defects1.........1.................................1
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy. Debility, Marasmus1.........1...............1...............5
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.................................1...1......2
Tuberculous Peritonitis:...................................................
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases.................................1...1...13
V. Other causes.Erysipelas......1...2.........1.....................3
Syphilis......2...2.................................2
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis(not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions............1.....................2.........4
Bronchitis.................................1............3
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia1.........1...............1......2...210
Suffocation. overlying1...1...2.................................2
Other causes.....................1...1............1...3
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District (or sub-division) of St. Jude. Population, Estimated to middle of 1907, 15,261. Births in the year. Legitimate, 362; Illegitimate, 12.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 48; Illegitimate Infants, 2 Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 267.