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Shoreditch 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: In the subjoined table the causes of death amongst infants under one year for each of the eight Wards of the Borough are 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 :—

Cause of Death.Moorfields Ward.Church Ward.Hoxton Ward.Wenlock Ward.Whitmore Ward.Kingsland Ward.Haggerston Ward.Acton Ward.Totals.
Small-pox...........................
Chicken-pox............1.........1
Measles...53...36...118
Scarlet Fever...........................
Whooping Cough. ....22"3224318
Diphtheria and Croup......111.........3
Erysipelas............11......2
Tuberculous Meningitis......1............12
Abdominal Tuberculosis...21......21...6
Other Tuberculous Diseases...22111...18
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...11553...15
Convulsions...315111...12
Laryngitis...........................
Bronchitis...3410732130
Pneumonia (all forms)11013139614773
Diarrhoea1513395541
Enteritis119841452"659
Gastritis............11114
Syphilis111......12...6
Rickets...........................
Suffocation, overlying...32152......13
Injury at Birth.....................11
Atelactasis......4...4.........8
Congenital Malformations111.2112312
Premature BirthI67138810861
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus2832624330
Other causes1523642124
Totals976706983505436447

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The infantile mortalities of the eight Wards of the Borough are contained in
Table VI. (Appendix). The rate was highest in Haggerston and lowest in Moorfields,
being 169 and 108 per 1,000 births respective]}". The infantile mortality for
England and Wales during 1915 was 110 and for London 103.
The work of the Health Visitors is detailed in their reports which are
appended (pp. 72 to 79). It was mentioned in my report for last year that a