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Shoreditch 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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In Table IV. (Appendix) is contained a statement showing the various causes
of death amongst infants under the age of one year, the ages in weeks and months
being given. This table also gives the nett deaths and births during the year
amongst legitimate and illegitimate infants. Comparison with the table for 1912
shows that the increase in the infantile mortality for 1913 is mainly the result of
increases in the numbers of deaths from diarrhoea, pneumonia and bronchitis.

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

In the subjoined table the causes of death amongst infants under one year fo each 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...........................
Measles...113311212
Scarlet Fever............................
Whooping Cough...331111111
Diphtheria and Croup......1...1.........2
Erysipelas....12l1..........5
Tuberculous Meningitis...3......22l...8
Abdominal Tuberculosis......114......l7
Other Tuberculous Diseases...23l1.........7
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).........3...3......6
Convulsions142143l218
Laryngitis.........1...............1
Bronchitis3893651...35
Pneumonia (all forms)11814510107772
Diarrhœa...2222131578794
Enteritis....1284742542
Gastritis..............................
Syphilis...2............1...4
Rickets...........................
Suffocation, overlying1711643225
Injury at Birth......1.........1...2
Atelactasis.....................11
Congenital Malformations1121............5
Premature Birth6111610923865
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus...1913616913480
Other causes...682423328
Totals131201075791534643530