Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wealdstone]
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TABLE V.
INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1908.
Cause of Death | Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age | |||||||||||||||
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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 | 9-10 Months, | 10-11 Months. | 11-12 Months. | Total Deaths under One Year | |
Certified | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27 |
Uncertified | ||||||||||||||||
Chicken-pox | ||||||||||||||||
Measles | ||||||||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||||||||
Diphtheria : Croup | ||||||||||||||||
Whooping Cough | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Diarrhoea, all forms | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastroenteritis | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Premature Birth | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Congenital Defects | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Injury at Birth | ||||||||||||||||
Want of Breast-milk | ||||||||||||||||
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Tuberculous | ||||||||||||||||
Meningitis | ||||||||||||||||
Tuberculous Peritonitis : Tabes | ||||||||||||||||
Mesenterica | ||||||||||||||||
Other Tuberculous Diseases | ||||||||||||||||
Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Convulsions | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Bronchitis | ||||||||||||||||
Laryngitis | ||||||||||||||||
Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Suffocation, overlaying | ||||||||||||||||
Other Causes | 2 | |||||||||||||||
3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27 |
Births in the year : legitimate 301; illegitimate 2.
Deaths from all Causes at all ages 92.
Population (estimated to middle of 1908) 11,775.
Deaths in the year: legitimate 27 ; illegitimate 0.
Note.—Columns in which no death has incurred have been omitted.