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Shoreditch 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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In Table IV (Appendix) is a statement showing the various causes of death
amongst infants under one year, the ages in weeks and months being given. The
table also gives the nett deaths and births during the year amongst legitimate and
illegitimate infants.

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

In the subjoined table the causes of death amongst infants under one year are given for each of 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
Smallpox...........................
Chicken-pox...........................
Measles...62451...119
Scarlet Fever...........................
Whooping Cough...2...312......8
Diphtheria and Croup...2............1...3
Erysipelas...........................
Tuberculous Meningitis...2.........l......3
Abdominal Tuberculosis...............1......1
Other Tuberculous Diseases...1......11...25
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................213
Convulsions...1......2......36
Laryngitis...........................
Bronchitis285412...123
Pneumonia (all forms)21581112137472
Diarrhœa112...2...219
Enteritis...5414......115
Gastritis......1...............1
Syphilis...2..................2
Rickets...........................
Suffocation, over-lying..................1...1
Injury at Birth.........1............1
Atelectasis...2.........1126
Congenital Malformations......2...213210
Premature Birth3148111034356
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus11043832536
Other causes...225542121
Totals973384353332527301

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The infantile mortalities of the eight Wards of the Borough are contained in
Table VI (Appendix). The rate was highest in Church and lowest in Hoxton,
being 144 and 77 per 1,000 births respectively. The infantile mortality for England
and Wales during 1922 was 77 and for London 74 per 1,000 births.
The deaths of children aged from one to two years numbered 168, and of
children aged from two to five years 99, the chief causes of death being diphtheria,
measles, whooping cough and pneumonia. Altogether 568, or 33.1 per cent. of the
total number of deaths at all ages, were of children under five years of age.