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And the following, one each: Appendicitis, Cancer, Diarrhœa,
Disease of the Bladder, Gastric Ulcer, Heart Failure from an
overloaded stomach pressing on a weak heart, Rupture of Throat
Abscess, and Ulcer of Intestine.
Children under 5 years of age—90
deaths.
1. Accidental and violent causes (35)
Overlain in bed by parents 17
Accidental burns and scalds 8
Accidental falls 6
Accidental suffocation in cot 2
Run over by tram 1
Murder 1
2. Other causes (55).
Pneumonia and Bronchitis 16
Premature Birth 11
Convulsions 6
Diarrhœa 2
Blood Poisoning 2
Heart Disease 2
Inanition and Marasmus 2
Intussusception of bowel 2
Phthisis 2
And the rest one each: Failure of Lungs to expand at birth,
Venereal Disease, Acute Inflammation of the Kidneys, Gastric
Ulcer, Diphtheria, Acute Fever, Enlarged Thymus, Meningitis,
Cerebral Hemorrhage, and Tuberculous Meningitis accelerated
by diarrhœa set up by eating a meat faggat.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The infantile mortality of any district for any stated year means
the number of deaths of children under one year per 1,000 births.
The corrected number of births of Finsbury children for 1910
is 2,833. In the same year 342 children died under one year
of age and belonging to the Borough. The infantile mortality
is obtained by multiplying the number of deaths under one year
(342) by 1,000 and dividing the result by the number of births
(2,833) for that year.
The infantile mortality of the Borough for 1910 is 121;
expressed in popular manner this means that out of every 1,000
children born during the year 121 died before reaching their
first birthday.