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. 2005 Jan;49(1):29-54.
doi: 10.1017/s0025727300008279.

The effects of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic on infant and child health in Derbyshire

Alice Reid  1
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The effects of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic on infant and child health in Derbyshire

Alice Reid. Med Hist. 2005 Jan.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Factor increase in female mortality during the 'flu epidemic, fourth quarter of 1918 compared to average of fourth quarters 1914–17. (Source: Registrar-General, Supplement to the eighty-first annual report of the Registrar-General, Report on the mortality from influenza in England and Wales during the epidemic of 1918–19, London, HMSO, 1920, p. 8.)
Figure 2
Figure 2
Weekly numbers of deaths from influenza in Derbyshire from the week ending 29 June 1918 until the week ending 3 May 1919. (Source: Registrar-General, Supplement to the eighty-first annual report of the Registrar-General, Report on the mortality from influenza in England and Wales during the epidemic of 1918–19, London, HMSO, 1920. Figures provided by Niall Johnson.)
Figure 3
Figure 3
Weekly death rates from influenza in Derbyshire and other areas from the week ending 29 June 1918 until the week ending 3 May 1919. (Source: These data are derived from the data set SN4350 ‘1918–1919 influenza pandemic mortality in England and Wales’ in the UK data archive, created by Niall Johnson. The original published source was the Registrar General, Supplement to the eighty-first annual report of the Registrar-General, Report on the mortality from influenza in England and Wales during the epidemic of 1918–19, London, HMSO, 1920, pp. 48–80.)
Figure 4
Figure 4
Monthly death rates from influenza in Derbyshire during the 1918–19 epidemic. (Source: Registrar-General, Supplement to the eighty-first annual report of the Registrar-General, Report on the mortality from influenza in England and Wales during the epidemic of 1918–19, London, HMSO, 1920. Derived from figures provided by Niall Johnson.)
Figure 5
Figure 5
Indexed post-neonatal period monthly death rates in Derbyshire, late 1918 and early 1919 (monthly averages for other years 1917–22=100). (Source: Derbyshire health visitor data.)
Figure 6
Figure 6
Indexed early childhood period monthly death rates in Derbyshire, late 1918 and early 1919 (monthly averages for other years 1917–22=100). (Source: Derbyshire health visitor data.)
Figure 7
Figure 7
Indexed neonatal period monthly death rates in Derbyshire, late 1918 and early 1919 (monthly averages for other years 1917–22=100). (Source: Derbyshire health visitor data.)
Figure 8
Figure 8
Indexed period stillbirth rates in Derbyshire, late 1918 and early 1919 (monthly averages for other years 1917–22=100). (Source: Derbyshire health visitor data.)
Figure 9
Figure 9
Indexed cohort neonatal mortality rates in Derbyshire, late 1918 and early 1919 (monthly averages for other years 1917–22=100). (Source: Derbyshire health visitor data.)
Figure 10
Figure 10
Indexed cohort post-neonatal mortality rates in Derbyshire, late 1918 and early 1919 (monthly averages for other years 1917–22=100). (Source: Derbyshire health visitor data.)
Figure 11
Figure 11
The proportion of all births in Derbyshire associated with maternal ill-health, by quarter, 1917–22. (Source: Derbyshire health visitor data.)
Figure 12
Figure 12
Percentage of infants in observation at each age who were still receiving breast milk: comparing those born in Derbyshire in the summers of 1917 and 1918. (Source: Derbyshire health visitor data.)
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