Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 DBATH | Under 1 W« ek. | 1-2 Weeks | 1 2-3 Weeks | 34 Weeks | Total under 1 Month | 1 - 2 Months | 2-3 Months | 3-4 Months | 4- 5 Months | 5-6 Mont l s | 6-7 Months | 7-8 J Months | 8-9 Months | 9-10 Months | 10-11 Months | 11-12 Months | TotalDeaths under 1 Year. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All causes | Certified | 74 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 111 | 57 | 61 | 37 | 42 | 34 | 33 | 28 | 27 | 31 | 32 | 17 | 510 |
| Uncertified | ||||||||||||||||||
| i. Common InfectiousDiseases. | Small-pox | |||||||||||||||||
| Chicken-pox | ||||||||||||||||||
| Measles | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11 | |||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria: Croup | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Whooping- Cough | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||||
| ii. Diarrhoeal Diseases. (See notes &c. Tables iv. & v.) | Diarrhoea, all forms | 8 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 86 | ||||||
| Enteritis, Muco-enteritis Gastro-enteritis | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 26 | ||
| Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal i Catarrh | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | |
| iii. Wasting Diseases | Premature Birth | 44 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 55 | 4 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 61 |
| Cougenital Defects (See notes on Tables iv. & v.) | 10 | 4 | 3 | 17 | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 23 | ||
| Injury ar, Birth | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Want of Breast-milk,Starvation | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |
| Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus | 12 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | .. | 78 | |||
| iv. Tuberculous Diseases | Tuberculous Meningitis (See notes on Tables iv. & v ) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 13 | |||||||
| Tuberculous Peritonitis Tabes Mesenterica | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | ||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 | ||
| v. Other causes | Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Syphilis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | |
| Rickets | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | • • | .. | .. | 1 | |
| Meningitis (not Tuberculous) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 | 14 | ||
| Convulsions | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | |
| Bronchitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 2 | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 27 | ||
| Lanngitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Pneumonia | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 52 | |
| Suffocation, overlaying | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 33 | ||||
| Other Causes | 2 | 1 | 2 | .. | 5 | 2 | 3 | .. | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 29 | |
| 74 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 111 | .57 | 61 | 37 | 42 | 34 | 33 | 28 | 27 | 31 | 32 | 17 | 510 | ||
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.