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Shoreditch 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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The number of deaths debited to Shoreditch is accordingly 560,
which gives a nett death rate of 12.69 per 1,000 population. In
connection with these deaths 30 inquests were held. The death rate
for England & Wales was 11.3 and for London 10.9. Altogether 425 or
75.7 per cent of the people belonging to Shoreditch who died during the
year, died in public institutions.
The table on page 8 showing causes of deaths at all ages has been
supplied by the Registrar-General.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of infants under one year numbered 17 of which 11 were
males. These deaths amounted to 3.03 per cent of the total net Shoreditch
deaths from all causes, as compared with 2.92 per cent in 1953. The
infantile mortality rate (death rate of infants under 1 year per 1,000
live births) for Shoreditch was 23.10, the rate for England and Wales
being 25.5 and that for London 22.0. One illegitimate infant died.
The number of deaths of infants under 4 weeks of age registered
during the y ar was 14, which gives a neo-natal rate of 19.03.
INFANTILE MORTALITY IN THE BOROUGH DURING 1954.
| CAUSE OF DEATH | AGES | SEX | Total deaths under 1 year | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urder 1 day | 1 day to 1 week | 1-2 weeks | 2-3 weeks | 3-4 weeks | Total under 1 month | 1-3 months | 3-6 months | 6-9 months | 9–12 months | Male | Female | ||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Branohitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | 2 |
| Congenital malformation | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Prematurity | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Atelectasis | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Rhesus Incompatibility | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Birth injury | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 6 | 1 | – | – | 4 | 2 | – | 1 | – | 11 | 6 | 17 | |