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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
Wealdstone 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wealdstone]
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TABLE V.
INFANTILE MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1909.
| Cause of Death | Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age | Total Deaths under One Year | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||
| Certified | ||||||||||||||||
| Uncertified | ||||||||||||||||
| Chicken-pox | ||||||||||||||||
| Measles | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria: Croup | ||||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | ||||||||||||||||
| Diarrhœa, all forms of enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Mastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh Premature Birth | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Congenital Defects | ||||||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | ||||||||||||||||
| Infant of Breast milk | ||||||||||||||||
| Estrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Meningitis | ||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica | ||||||||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | ||||||||||||||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) Convulsions | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Maryngitis | ||||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Suffocation, over-laying Other Causes | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25 | ||||
Births in the year: legitimate 341; illegitimate 6.
Deaths from all Causes at all ages 116.
Population (estimated to middle of 1909) 12,250.
Deaths in the year: legitimate 25; illegitimate 0.
Note.—Columns in which no death has incurred have been omitted.