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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 1913
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1913 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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TABLE H.
| Special Causes of Infantile Deaths. | Totals. | Rate per thousand births. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 1912 | 1913 | 1912 | |
| Diarrhceal diseases | 115 | 36 | 28 7 | 9 2 |
| Premature birth, injury at birth, and congenital defects, including Atelectasis | 38 | 90 | 22 0 | 23.4 |
| Respiratory diseases | 83 | 73 | 20 7 | 18.7 |
| Wasting diseases | 39 | 41 | 9.7 | 10.5 |
| Convulsive diseases | 39 | 30 | 97 | 7.7 |
| Common infectious diseases | 32 | 30 | 80 | 7.7 |
| Suffocation | 17 | 26 | 42 | 6.6 |
| Tubercular diseases | 16 | 19 | 40 | 4.9 |
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
The deaths of young children aged less than five
years, including infants, numbered 703 and formed thirtyfive
per cent. of the deaths at all ages; this is equivalent to
a rate of 43.2 per thousand of the population of young
children.
SENILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of persons aged over 65 numbered 460,
a proportion of twenty-three per cent. of the total deaths
at all ages, and a mortality rate of 95.3 as calculated upon
the population of elderly people.