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Shoreditch 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: In the subjoined table the causes of death amongst infants under one year for cach of the eight Wards of the Borough are given:—

In the subjoined table the causes of death amongst infants under one year for cach of the eight Wards of the Borough are given:—

Cause of Death.Moorfields Ward.Church Ward.Hoxton Ward.Wenlock Ward.Whitmore Ward.Kingsland Ward.Haggerston Ward.Acton Ward.Totals.
Small pox..................
Chicken pox......1........1
Measles..26423..219
Scarlet Fever..................
Whooping Cough1641232120
Diphtheria and Croup....1..1....13
Erysipelas..................
Tuberculous Meningitis..22241..213
Abdominal Tuberculosis........12....3
Other Tuberculous Diseases1....1........2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..111..11..5
Convulsions12..31..2..9
Laryngitis........1......1
Bronchitis1235224120
Pneumonia (all forms)11456644545
Diarrhœa..77591..231
Enteritis110141562342
Gastritis1..............1
Syphilis..231..1119
Rickets........1....12
Suffocation, overlying..10621..6126
Injury at Birth..1............1
Atelactasis..11....21..5
Congenital Malformations..313312215
Premature Birth11751614115776
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus423101012513481
Other causes..362333121
Totals11107626778464634451

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The infantile mortalities of the eight wards of the Borough are contained in
Table VI. (Appendix). The mortality was highest in Church Ward, where it
amounted to 152, and lowest in Moorfields, where it was only 91 per 1,000 births.
In Acton Ward the infantile mortality was also low, only amounting to 95 per 1,000
births.
The infantile mortality was during 1912 markedly below the average throughout
the country, being only 95 per 1,000 births for England and Wales, and 90 for London,