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147 per 1,000 births belonging to Shoreditch registered during the year. This
infantile mortality although higher than those of the years 1909 and 1908 is none the
less below the average of the past ten years. As is usual, the infantile mortality
was higher amongst males than females, being 165 for the former as compared with
128 for the latter.
The chief causes of death amongst infants under the age of one year were :—
diarrhoea and other disorders of the stomach and intestines, prematurity, weakness
and wasting, bronchitis, pneumonia and suffocation in bed. In Table V. (Appendix)
is contained a statement showing the causes of death of infants under the age of
one year, the ages in weeks and months being given. In the subjoined table the
causes of death amongst infants under one year for each of the eight wards of the
Borough are given :—