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Infantile Mortality.
The deaths amongst infants under one year numbered 168, of which 93 were
males and 75 females. These deaths amounted to 10.5 per cent, of the total nett
Shoreditch deaths from all causes compared with 119 per cent, in 1928.
The mortality amongst infants under one year was at the rate of 83 per 1,000
births registered during the year. Amongst male infants this rate was 91 and amongst
females 76. The infant mortality rates in the different Wards of the Borough are
included in the foregoing table.
The number of deaths of illegitimate infants was 3, which figure gives a mortality
rate of 42 per 1,000 illegitimate births.
The chief causes of deaths amongst infants were pneumonia, prematurity,
diarrhoea and enteritis, whooping cough, congenital malformation, congenital debility.
During the last ten years the infant mortality rates for England and Wales,
London and Shoreditch have been as follows :—

The causes of deaths of infants under one year together with ages and ward
distribution are given in the table on the opposite page.