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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(a). District—North East Bethnal Green. Infantile Mortality during the Year, 1907. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V(a). District—North East 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.Totai 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.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
All Causes. Certified401917789262420171811181071210262
Uncertified1......12.................................2
i. Common Infectious Diseases
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox..................................................
Measles..........................................1...1
Scarlet Fever..............................211.........4
Diptheria (including Membranous Croup).................................1............1
Whooping Cough.........11...1......22.........2...8
ii. Diarrlioeal Diseases Diarrhoea, all forms...............2225...13.........217
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastroenteritis...11...211114......11......12
Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh..................2...1112............7
iii. Wasting Diseases Premature Birth3157l445...2...1..................52
Congenital Defects843...151......1.....................17
Injury at Birth2........2...............................2
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus111l4524...4222...1127
iv. Tuberculous Diseases Tuberculous Meningitis......................l111...2......6
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..................21l.....................4
Other Tuberculous Diseases.................................2...1......3
v. Other Causes Erysipelas...............1..............................1
Syphilis.........223...........................5
Rickets..................1...........................1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................1...l1111...1...7
Convulsions231281...2...1..11.........14
Bronchitis1...2...32632211115128
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...............242...1...1211418
Suffocation, overlying141172222......111......18
Other Causes111...31...12......1......1211
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Population, (estimated to middle of 1907), 05,716.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 1,069.