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Shoreditch 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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table also gives the nett deaths and births during the year amongst legitimate and
illegitimate infants.

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

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

Cause of Death.Moorfields Ward.Church Ward.Hoxton Ward.Wenlock Ward.Whitmore Ward.Kingsland Ward.Haggerston Ward.Acton Ward.Totals
Smallpox...........................
Chicken-pox........................
Measles11...1.........14
Scarlet Fever...........................
Whooping Cough......1...3...1...5
Diphtheria and Croup.........1............2
Erysipelas...........................
Tuberculous Meningitis.........1............2
Abdominal Tuberculosis...........................
Other Tuberculous Diseases......1...1......13
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...1.........3......4
Convulsions1...2......1...15
Laryngitis...........................
Bronchitis...2532...2115
Pneumonia (all forms)...7103985143
Diarrhœa...311112110
Enteritis134...32...417
Gastritis...........................
Syphilis............11......2
Rickets.....................11
Suffocation, over-lying......1...............1
Injury at Birth...........................
Atelectasis...31............15
Congenital Malformations...224...31416
Premature Birth15949611348
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus1561932128
Other causes235342...221
Totals737482242302422232

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The infantile mortalities of the eight wards of the Borough are contained in
Table VI (Appendix). The highest rate was in Kingsland, and the lowest in Wenlock,
109 and 47 per 1,000 births respectively. The infantile mortality for England and
Wales was 69 and for London 60 per 1,000 births.
The chief causes of death at all ages were: tuberculosis, which accounted for
161, including 139 from consumption ; pneumonia, which caused 175 deaths; bronchitis,
152; diseases of the heart and circulatory organs, 155; old age, 54; cancer, 108;
prematurity, 48; apoplexy, 52; Bright's disease, 58; atrophy, debility, and maramus,
29; violence, 55; and diarrhoea and enteritis, 33 deaths.