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Shoreditch 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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are given together with the ages in weeks and months, and the nett deaths and
births 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...323...1110
Scarlet Fever...........................
Whooping Cough...323321115
Diphtheria and Croup...........................
Erysipelas...1......1.........2
Tuberculous Meningitis...1.........1...13
Abdominal Tuberculosis...........................
Other Tuberculous Diseases.........1............1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).........12.........3
Convulsions...121............4
Laryngitis...........................
Bronchitis...232511216
Pneumonia (all forms)3645564639
Diarrhœa...2111I118
Enteritis1532424...20
Gastritis...11...............2
Syphilis......2...............2
Rickets...1..................1
Suffocation, over-lying...111.........14
Injury at Birth...........................
Atelectasis...1...1............3
Congenital Malformations...22...2...2311
Premature Birth...456415429
Atrophy Debility and Marasmus...954744538
Other causes1342612221
Totals546373043202527233

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The infantile mortalities for the Wards of the Borough are given in Table VI.
(Appendix). The rate was highest in Acton and lowest in Moorfields, being 120 and
50 per 1,000 births respectively.
The infantile mortality for England and Wales was at the rate of 75, and for
London it was 67 per 1,000 births registered.
The deaths of children aged from one to two years numbered 71, the chief causes
being measles and diseases of the respiratory organs. Of children aged from two to
five years 59 died, the chief causes being measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, and
diseases of the respiratory organs. Altogether 363 or 25.5 per cent. of the total
number of deaths were of children under five years of age.