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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 1914
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1914 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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though there has been an increase in all causes except
two, the great increase of mortality was due to deaths
from diarrhœa, a disease which was epidemic in the
autumn of 1914.
Tubercular meningitis and tabes mesenterica each
caused 2 deaths, other forms of tuberculosis caused 6,
a total of 10, which gives a mortality of 2.6 per thousand
births.
TABLE H.
| Special causes of infantile Deaths. | Totals. | Rate per thousand births. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 1913 | 1914 | 1913 | |
| Diarrhœal Diseases | 140 | 115 | 36.0 | 28.7 |
| Premature birth, injury at birth, and congenital defects, including Atelectasis | 102 | 88 | 26.9 | 22.0 |
| Respiratory diseases | 89 | 83 | 23.5 | 20.7 |
| Wasting diseases | 47 | 39 | 12.4 | 9.7 |
| Convulsive diseases | 33 | 39 | 8.7 | 9.7 |
| Common infectious diseases | 41 | 32 | 10.8 | 8.0 |
| Suffocation | 24 | 17 | 6.3 | 4.2 |
| Tubercular diseases | 10 | 16 | 2.6 | 4.0 |