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Southwark 1907

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

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TABLE 18.

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ST. GEORGE'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 CausesCertified137763371362641142116105
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious DiseasesSmall-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles.....................1...1......2.........4
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup).......................................1......1
Whooping Cough................................................
ii. Diarrhœal DiseasesDiarrhoea, all forms.....................2............7...3...16
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...................................................
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth62......11.................................13
Congenital Defects3.........3.................................4
Injury at Birth1.........1.................................1
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2141833...1...1......1......17
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis.........11............1......1.........3
Tuberculous Peritonitis:.........l1...2...........................3
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases........................1...............1...2
v. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...1......1...............1...2.........4
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis(not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions...1......1.................................1
Bronchitis...1...l21...1...21...1...2...12
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia............1...22...2......1...5...16
Suffocation, overlying11...l3...4...........................7
Other causes...................................................
137763371362641142116105

District (or sub-division) of St. George. Population, Estimated to middle of 1907, 21,539. Births in the year, Legitimate, 709 ; Illegitimate, 19.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 102 ; Illegitimate Infants, 3. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 412.