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Shoreditch 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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10
INFANTILE MORTALITY
The deaths of infants under one year numbered 20 of which 9 were males.
These deaths amounted to 3.87 per cent of the total net Shoreditch deaths from
all causesj as compared with 2.64 per cent in 1962. The infantile mortality
rate (death rate of infants under one year per 1,000 live births) for
Shoreditch was 33.44, rate for England and Wales being 21.1 and that for
London 21.8. No illegitimate infant dieda
The number of deaths of infants under 4 weeks of age- was 6, which gives
a neo-natal rate of 10.03.
INFANTILE MORTALITY IN THE BOROUGH DURING 19630
| CAUSE OF DEATH | AGES. | SEX | Total deaths under 1 year | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 9-12 months | Male | Female | ||
| Whooping cough | |||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | |||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | |||||||||||||
| Congenital malformation | |||||||||||||
| Prematurity | |||||||||||||
| Atelectasis | |||||||||||||
| TOTAL | |||||||||||||
MATERNAL MORTALITY, 1963.
No maternal death was recorded during the year.
Maternal mortality rates for England & Wales and for Shoreditch
for the past seven years are given below:-
Maternal Mortality Rate per 1,000 Live and Still Births
1963
1962
1961
I960
1959
1958
1957
England & Wales
0.28
0.35
0.33
0.39
0.38
0.42
0.47
Shoreditch
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
1.46
Nil.
2.66
Nil.
CANCER
The deaths from cancer in the borough during the year numbered 79 as
compared with 92 in 1962.