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Shoreditch 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE V. BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.

Infantile Mortality during the year, 1908, showing deaths from stated causes in weeks and months under One Year of Age.

CAU3E OF DBATHUnder 1 W« ek.1-2 Weeks1 2-3 Weeks34 WeeksTotal under 1 Month1 - 2 Months2-3 Months3-4 Months4- 5 Months5-6 Mont l s6-7 Months7-8 J Months8-9 Months9-10 Months10-11 Months11-12 MonthsTotalDeaths under 1 Year.
All causesCertified74141761115761374234332827313217510
Uncertified
i. Common InfectiousDiseases.Small-pox
Chicken-pox
Measles11314111
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria: Croup111. ,3
Whooping- Cough131111210
ii. Diarrhoeal Diseases. (See notes &c. Tables iv. & v.)Diarrhoea, all forms812129123795486
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis......1167....22211126
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal i Catarrh..........3211..............8
iii. Wasting DiseasesPremature Birth446415542..................61
Cougenital Defects (See notes on Tables iv. & v.)104317..3..1..2..........23
Injury ar, Birth..................................
Want of Breast-milk,Starvation....119......................2
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus12161913107545133..78
iv. Tuberculous DiseasesTuberculous Meningitis (See notes on Tables iv. & v )11131211213
Tuberculous Peritonitis Tabes Mesenterica..........211..11..1......7
Other Tuberculous Diseases (See notes on Tables iv. & v.)................12..413112
v. Other causesErysipelas......................22
Syphilis............41................5
Rickets..............1..........• •....1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)............212112..13114
Convulsions1........1111..............7
Bronchitis..........72..121232127
Lanngitis..................................
Pneumonia......113614533939552
Suffocation, overlaying0128756412........33
Other Causes212..523..5221142229
7414176111.5761374234332827313217510

Births in the year—Legitimate 3,575, illegitimate 103. Population, estimated to middle of 1908, 115,642.
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages 2,006.