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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
Shoreditch 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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TABLE V. BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.
TABLE V. BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.
Infantile Mortality during the year,
| CAUSE OP 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 ! Month? | 11-12 Months | Total Deaths under 1 Year. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All causes | Certified | |||||||||||||||||
| Uncertified | ||||||||||||||||||
| i. Common Infectious Diseases. | Small-pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Chicken-pox | ||||||||||||||||||
| Measles | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria: Croup | ||||||||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| ii. Diarrhœal Diseases. (See notes, &c. Tables iv. & v.) | Diarrhoea, all forms | |||||||||||||||||
| Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Gastro-enteritis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Catarrh ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| iii. Wasting Diseases. | Premature Birth | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Congenital Defects (See notes io Tables iv. & v.) | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Want of Breast-milk Starvation | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| iv. Tuberculous Diseases. | Tuberculous Meningitis (See notes on Tables iv. & v.) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases (See notes on Tables iv. & v.) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| v. Other causes | Erysipelas | |||||||||||||||||
| Syphilis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pickets | ||||||||||||||||||
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Convulsions | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Laryngitis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 7 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Suffocation, overlying | ||||||||||||||||||
| Other Causes | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 81 | 18 | 68 | 55 | |||||||||||||||