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Southwark 1907

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

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Table: TABLE 20INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ST. SAVIOUR'S WARD. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE 20

INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1907. ST. SAVIOUR'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 CausesCertified43119146121423235
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox.......................................225
Measles...................................................
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)....................................1............
Whooping Cough...................................................
ii. Diarr'hœalDiarrhœa, all forms...................................................
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis,Gastro enteritis...................................................
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth21......3.................................3
Congenital Defects1.............................................1
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy. Debility, Marasmus111...312311..................11
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.[Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis:...................................................
Tabes Mesenterica
Other Tuberculous Diseases.................................1............1
V. Other causes.Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis...................................................
Rickets...................................................
Meningitis(not Tuberculous)...................................................
Convulsions...1......1.................................2
Bronchitis.....................1...............1......2
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia.........11...1............3...11...7
Suffocation, overlying..................1...........................1
Other causes...................................................
431191461214...23235

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District (or sub-division) of St. Saviour. Population, Estimated to middle of 1907, 12,267. Births in the year. Legitimate, 327 ; Illegitimate, 4.
Deaths in the year of Legitimate Infants, 34 ; Illegitimate Infants, 1. Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 185.