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Shoreditch 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: The ages in weeks and months being given for the whole Borough. In the subjoined table the deaths from the same causes amongst infants under one year of age are given for the eight wards of the Borough:—

The ages in weeks and months being given for the whole Borough. In the subjoined table the deaths from the same causes amongst infants under one year of age are given for the eight wards of the Borough:—

Cause of Death.Moorfields Ward.Church Ward.Hoxton Ward.Wenlock Ward.Whitmore Ward.Kingsland Ward.Haggerston Ward.Acton Ward.Totals.
Measles...25312...215
Scarlet Fever1......1......1...3
Whooping Cough19924...1228
Diarrhoea (all forms)...2229172061710121
Enteritis...56584...331
Gastritis and Gastro Intestinal Catarrh...433745329
Premature Birth4161786610572
Congenital Defects...323124318
Want of Breast Milk...21......2......5
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus417181218107894
Tuberculous Meningitis1211111210
Tuberculous Peritonitis and Tabes Mesenterica...413413...16
Other Tuberculous Diseases...12.........115
Erysipelas..................1...1
Syphilis...4...212......9
Rickets...1...12.........4
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...23...212313
Convulsions11352...1417
Bronchitis181161269255
Pneumonia31475599355
Suffocation, overlaying...478542...30
Other causes14536...1121
Totals1712513088105607552652

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A comparison of the infant mortalities in the wards is contained in Table VII.
(appendix). The mortality was highest in Hoxton Ward and lowest in Moorfields.
The deaths of children aged between ore and five years numbered 363, the chief
cruses being measles, which accounted for 45, whooping cough for 56; tuberculosis
for 55, pneumonia for 63, and diarrhoea, which resulted in 22 deaths. Through accident
or negligence 15 children met their deaths, in eleven of these from burns or
scalds. Altogether 1,015, or a little over 44 per cent, of the total number of deaths
were of children under the age of five years.
The deaths of children between the ages of five and fifteen numbered 88, including
21 from tuberculosis and .15 from other infectious diseases. Accident or negligence
resulted in 9 deaths, four of which were caused by burns or scalds.
Of persons aged between fifteen and twenty-five years 73 died, 30 of the deaths
being due to tuberculosis, including 24 from consumption,