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Shoreditch 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: TABLE IV.INFANTILE MORTALITY IN THE BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH DURING THE YEAR 1925.Nett deaths from stated causes at various ages under One Year of Age(seeNote(a)).

TABLE IV.

INFANTILE MORTALITY IN THE BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH DURING THE YEAR 1925.

Nett deaths from stated causes at various ages under One Year of Age

(seeNote(a)).

CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks. 12—3 Weeks.3—4 Weeks.Total under 1 .Month1—3 Months.3—6 Months.6—9 Months.9—12 Months.Total Deaths under I Year.
All causesCertified3612133644552393.3233
Uncertified..............................
Smallpox..............................
Chicken-pox..............................
Measles..................13610
Scarlet fever..............................
Whooping cough...............544215
Diphtheria and Croup..............................
Erysipelas...............2.........2
Tuberculous meningitis..................1...23
Abdominal tuberculosis (b)..............................
Other tuberculous diseases........................11
Meningitis (not tuberculous)...............111...3
Convulsions1.........211......4
Laryngitis..............................
Bronchitis.........11732316
Pneumonia (all forms)......2...2610111039
Diarrhoea..................4318
Enteritis...............485421
Gastritis.....................2...2
Syphilis...1......11.........2
Rickets........................11
Suffocation, overlying22......4............4
Injury at birth...........................
Atelectasis3.........3............3
Congenital malformations (c)322...722......11
Premature birth1935...2711......29
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus2121613116238
Other causes622111252121
36121336445523933233

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Nett Births in the year.—Legitimate, 2,545 ; illegitimate, 82. Nett Deaths in
the year of legitimate infants, 223 ; illegitimate infants, 10,