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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 1910

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1910 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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Table: TABLE V (a), North-East Bethnal Green.Infantile Mortality During the Year 1910.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE V (a), North-East Bethnal Green.Infantile Mortality During the Year 1910.Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Cause of Death.Under 1 week1-2 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.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
i. Common Infectious Diseases.
Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................11...1137
Scarlet Fever....................................1.........1
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)..........................................1...1
Whooping Cough...............2...............11...3...7
ii. Diarrhæal Diseases.
Diarrhæa, all forms.....................212231......213
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis...............112......2.........1...7
Gastritis, Gastro-intesti-nal Catarrh.....................1..................1...2
iii. Wasting Diseases.
Premature Birth287313942...........................45
Congenital Defects512...812......1......1.........13
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast Milk, Starvation...................................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus11...2410316...221...3...32
iv. Tuberculous Diseases.
Tuberculous Meningitis...............1...12.....................4
Tuberculous Peritonitis:
Tabes Mesenterica.....................1......13......1...6
Other Tuberculous Diseases........................1.....................1
v. Other Causes.
Erysipelas...................................................
Syphilis1.........11......1.....................3
Rickets.....................1...............1......2
Meningitis (not Tuber-culous)...............11......111...1......6
Convulsions...1...2351......11...............11
Bronchitis...1......142141222...1323
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia.........1132223...2265129
Suffocation, overlaying2......2412...1.....................8
Other causes...l1132...132...1...1...215
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Population (estimated to middle of 1910), 66,134. Births in the year, 2,014.
Deaths in the year, of Infants, 236. Deaths from all causes at all ages, 985.