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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

Bethnal Green 1907

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1907 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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Table: TABLE V. Borough—Bethnal Green. Infantile Mortality during the Year, 1907. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V. Borough—Bethnal Green. Infantile Mortality during the Year, 1907. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

cause of 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 Months,11-11 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All Causes.
Certified1083231161875344383536293730242535573
Uncertified...1......1.................................1
i. Common Infectious Diseases
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles....................................225211
Scarlet Fever..............................212.........5
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)...........................1...1............2
Whooping Cough.........11221...233414427
ii. Diarrhoeal Diseases
Diarrhoea, all forms......1...1435633612...337
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastroenteritis...11...2213443...41...226
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh...............2312122.........114
iii. Wasting Diseases
Premature Birth611391847211..................95
Congenital Defects2056...3122...3......1......1...40
Injury at Birth5.........5.................................5
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus943319956...823211258
iv. Tuberculous Diseases
Tuberculous Meningitis.....................11331...2...112
Tuberculous Peritonitis, Tabes Mesenterica..................212...11...2......9
Other Tuberculous
Diseases..................21......13...31...11
v. Other Causes
Erysipelas......1...12......1...1.........5
Syphilis......1235..............................8
Rickets..................1.........2............25
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................1...3113111113
Convulsions432312114...1111.........22
Bronchitis1133861034313236352
Laryngitis................................................
Pneumonia.........1i55748239351163
Suffocation, overlying6512144522...1121...32
Other Causes213...62112...13...21322
1083331161885344383536293730242535574

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Population, (estimated to middle of 1907), 130,831. Births in the year, 4,152. Deaths in the year, 574 Infants,
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages. 2,281.