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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

Bethnal Green 1910

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1910 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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Table: TABLE V. Whole District—Infantile Mortality During the Year 1910. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V. Whole District—Infantile Mortality During the Year 1910. 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.
i. Common Infectious Diseases.
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles1.........1............111222616
Scarlet Fever....................................1.........1
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)..........................................1...1
Whooping Cough......1...12...111...2316119
ii. Diarrhæal Diseases.
Diarrhæa, all forms...1......11345324123332
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...11...2534...351111...26
Gastritis, Gastro- intestinal Catarrh.........111...111......2...1...8
iii. Wasting Diseases.
Premature Birth5714728053...........................88
Congenital Defects1543123141...1111.........33
Injury at Birth4.........41..............................5
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus24...39176393431...3159
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.
Tuberculous Meningitis,...............1...13...11......119
Tuberculous Peritonitis, Tabes Mesenterica.....................11...23...11...9
Other Tuberculous Diseases........................1.....................1
v. Other Causes.
Erysipelas.......................................1......1
Syphilis1.........11...11.....................4
Rickets.....................1...............1......2
Meningitis (not Tuber-culous)...............1121122...21114
Convulsions2112665122111......126
Bronchitis...11...27435133322338
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...1113663362431310564
Suffocation, overlaying53...21054331..................26
Other causes...11353226411131534
873116151496341324228252720293327516

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Population (estimated to middle of 1910) 131,579. Births in the year, 4,208.
Deaths in the year, of Infants, 516. Deaths from all causes at all ages, 2,003.