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Shoreditch 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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inquests were held. 548 or 79.6 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 12 of which 8 were males.
These deaths amounted to 1.74 per cent of the total net Shoreditch deaths from
all causes, as compared with 2.56 per cent in 1955. The infantile mortality
rate (death rate of infants under one year per 1,000 live births) for
Shoreditch was 16.53, the rate for England and Wales being 25.8 and that for
London 21.4 One illegitimate infant died.
The number of deaths of infants under 4 weeks of age was 7, which gives a
neo-natal rate of 9.64.
INFANTILE MORTALITY IN THE BOROUGH DURING 1956.
| CAUSE OF DEATH | AGES | SEX | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 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 | 1 9-12 months | Male | Female | Total deaths under 1 year | |
| Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Bronchitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Gastritis, enteritis Congenital | - | - | - | - | — | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| malf ormati on | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Other defined and ill-defined diseases. | - | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Other accidents | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Total | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 7 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 12 |