Sixty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington page 10

Islington 1920

Sixty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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1920]
The following Table shows the diseases that proved most fatal in the first
year of child life, together with the mortality rates per 1,000 births.

Table: Showing the Mortality per 1,000 Births among Infants under one year of agein the ten years 1910-19; and in 1920 from certain specified causes.

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Showing the Mortality per 1,000 Births among Infants under one year of agein the ten years 1910-19; and in 1920 from certain specified causes.

Causes of Death	1920	Mean rate 10 years 1910-19 per 1,000 Births.	Difference.
Premature Birth and Congenital Defects..	16.69	20.45	— 3.76
Bronchitis and Pneumonia	19.35	17.99	+ 136
Atrophy and Marasmus	8.08	13.33	— 5.25
Diarrhoeal Diseases (all forms)	1.81	8.28	— 6 .47
Convulsions	1.70	1.81	— 0.11
Whooping Cough	2.87	3.88	— 1 .01
Measles	2.13	3.10	— 0.97
Phthisis	0.11	0.39	— 0.28
Other forms of Tuberculosis	0.85	2.85	— 2.00
Diphtheria	0.74	0.26	+ 0.48
Total of above	54.33	72.34	18.01
All other causes	17.54	23.03	— 5.49
Total	71.87	95.37	— 23.50

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Table: Showing the Mortality per 1,000 Births among Infants under one year of agein the ten years 1910-19; and in 1920 from certain specified causes.