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From this it will be observed that the infant mortality this year is considerably
above the average for Shoreditch for the past ten years. It is higher than it has
been for the past 20 years. This is mainly due to an increased number of deaths
from zymotic diseases, especially diarrhoea, and from diseases of the respiratory
organs. The number of causes not specified or ill defined, have also contributed
to this year's high infant mortality.
Of children between the ages of one and five years, 527 deaths were registered:
74 were due to measles, 51 to whooping cough, 41 to diphtheria, 29 to diarrhoea, 64 to
tubercular disease, 22 to scarlet fever and 6 to influenza, bronchitis caused 61 and
pneumonia 92 deaths, various forms of violence occasioned 14 deaths, including 7 from
burns and scalds.
The number of deaths under five years was 1,394, or 48.7 per cent. of the total
number of deaths in the parish. In 1894 the number was 1,109, being 49.9 per cent.
of the total number of deaths, in 1893 the number was 1400 and the percentage 44.5,
in 1892 the figures were 1264 and 44.6 per cent., and in 1891 they were 1385 and 45.5.
The nuumber of deaths which occurred in the 5—15 age period was 104: 10 of
these were due to diphtheria, 6 to scarlet fever, 4 whooping cough, and 23 to
tubercular disease. Diseases of the respiratory organs caused 15 deaths, and various
forms of violence 11 deaths.
Of persons between fifteen and twenty-five years of age there were 97 deaths.
Typhoid fever caused 10 deaths, phthisis or consumption 30, heart disease 7, diseases
of the respiratory organs 10, and various forms of violence 6, including 2 cases of
suicide, 1 from drowning and 1 from poison.
Of the 146 deaths registered of persons aged between twenty-five and thirty-five
years, 7 were due to typhoid fever, 56 to phthisis, 15 to heart disease, 16 to diseases
of the respiratory organs, including 9 from pneumonia, 5 to Bright's disease, 7 to
child-birth, and 6 to various forms of violence.
Of the 211 persons who died aged 35—45 years, 87 deaths were attributed to
phthisis, 13 to apoplexy, 16 to heart disease, 20 to bronchitis, 19 to pneumonia, 14 to
Bright's disease and 8 to cancer. Two deaths were due to violence and one to anthrax.
The latter was in the case of a woman, 37 years of age, who worked with horse-hair
and hides which had been imported from abroad. Anthrax is a disease which aflects
horses and cattle; it is communicable to man and is mostly met with amongst those
whose occupation brings them in contact with the diseased animals or infected hides,
wool and the like, especially those which are imported from Foreign countries.
There were 274 deaths of persons aged from 45—55 years: 7 of these were due
to influenza, 48 to phthisis, 16 to cancer, 19 to apoplexy, 40 to heart disease, 31 to