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Infantile Mortality.
The deaths amongst infants under one year numbered 129, of which 65 were
males and 61 females. These deaths amounted to 10.7 per cent, of the total nett
Shoreditch deaths from all causes as compared with 10.6 per cent. in 1929.
The mortality amongst infants under one year was at the rate of 65 per 1,000
births registered during the year. This is the lowest infantile mortality rate ever
recorded in Shoreditch. Amongst male infants this rate was 66 and amongst females
64. The infant mortality rates in the different Wards of the Borough are included
in the table on the opposite page.
The number of deaths of illegitimate infants was 8, which figure gives a mortality
rate of 108 per 1,000 illegitimate births.
The chief causes of deaths amongst infants were pneumonia, prematurity,
diarrhoea and enteritis and measles.
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.