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20
Infantile Mortality.
The deaths amongst infants under one year numbered 110, of which (JG
were males and 44 females. These deaths amounted to 91 per cent of the
total nett Shoreditch deaths from all causes as compared with 114 per cent
in 1932.
The mortality amongst infants under one year was at the rate of 74 per
1,000 births registered during the year. Amongst male infants this rate was
89 and amongst females 58. The infant mortality rates in the different
Wards of the Borough are included in the table on page 20.
The number of deaths of illegitimate infants was 10, which figure gives a
mortality rate of 196 per 1,000 illegitimate births.
The chief causes of deaths amongst infants were pneumonia, diarrhoea
and enteritis and prematurity.
During the last five 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.