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London County Council 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1910
The following table shows the deaths of infants under one year of age and the number of these deaths per 1,000 births in each of the sanitary districts of the County of London for the period
1905-9 and for the year 1910:—
| Metropolitan borough. | Deaths under one year of age, 1910 (52 weeks). | Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1905-9. | 1910. | ||
| Paddington | 296 | 107 | 96 |
| Kensington | 340 | 126 | 106 |
| Hammersmith | 302 | 125 | 99 |
| Fulham | 462 | 125 | 107 |
| Chelsea | 140 | 116 | 101 |
| Westminster, City of | 215 | 103 | 84 |
| St. Marylebone | 252 | 109 | 108 |
| Hampstead | 80 | 76 | 60 |
| St. Pancras | 582 | 113 | 102 |
| Islington | 777 | 113 | 94 |
| Stoke Newington | 63 | 98 | 64 |
| Hackney | 520 | 116 | 98 |
| Holborn | 105 | 117 | 103 |
| Finsbury | 347 | 138 | 123 |
| London, City of | 15 | 109 | 66 |
| Shoreditch | 526 | 152 | 146 |
| Bethnal Green | 517 | 140 | 123 |
| Stepney | 1,037 | 129 | 112 |
| Poplar | 605 | 136 | 118 |
| Southwark | 682 | 135 | 116 |
| Bermondsey | 503 | 141 | 126 |
| Lambeth | 691 | 118 | 94 |
| Battersea | 434 | 115 | 97 |
| Wandsworth | 545 | 105 | 78 |
| Camberwell | 629 | 114 | 94 |
| Deptford | 367 | 118 | 122 |
| Greenwich | 261 | 113 | 107 |
| Lewisham | 274 | 91 | 80 |
| Woolwich | 242 | 100 | 85 |
It will be seen from the foregoing table that in the period 1905-9 and the year 1910 Shoreditch
(152 and 146 respectively) and Bermondsey (141 and 126 respectively) had the highest infantile
death-rates and Hampstead (76 and 60 respectively) had the lowest. The deaths under one year of
age per 1,000 births, during each of the four quarters of the year,were as follows:—First quarter 101;
second quarter 88; third quarter 91; fourth quarter 128.
The reports of Medical Officers of Health of the several sanitary districts of the Administrative
County for the year 1910 contain tables prepared in accordance with the instructions of the
Local Government Board giving the number of deaths, from all causes and certain specified causes, of
infants at different age-periods in the first year of life.
From the information thus supplied,the following table has been compiled, showing the figures for London
as a whole for the 52 weeks of 1910. It will be seen that the total deaths here shown differ slightly from the total in the
preceding table derived from the annual summary of the Registrar-General.
| Cause of death. | Under 1 Week. | 1-2 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. i | 10-11 Months. | 11-12 Months. | Total Deaths under one year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Chicken-pox | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 4 |
| Measles | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 20 | 43 | 54 | 71 | 87 | 83 | 391 |
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | 10 |
| Diphtheria and Croup | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 30 |
| Whooping-cough | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 58 | 47 | 38 | 42 | 42 | 67 | 45 | 62 | 60 | 63 | 61 | 602 |
| Diarrhoea, all forms | 2 | 9 | 17 | 17 | 45 | 87 | 94 | 126 | 99 | 98 | 66 | 74 | 67 | 60 | 45 | 39 | 900 |
| Enteritis (not tuberculous) | 2 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 28 | 67 | 60 | 62 | 54 | 56 | 45 | 24 | 33 | 37 | 26 | 21 | 513 |
| Gastritis, Gastrointestinal Catarrh | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 20 | 25 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 123 |
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