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Stepney 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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LIMEHOUSE DIVISION.

TABLE V.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1907.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Cause of Death.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1-2 Months.2-3 Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Year.
All Causes.Certified3591246028152213ii221316161314243
Uncertified• •• •......••..••....••..........••
Small-pox..................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Chicken-pox..................................
Measles......................1..3228
Scarlet Fever..............................11
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)..................................
Whooping Cough......................2..1..14
Diarrhœal Diseases.Diarrhœa, all forms............33433414232
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis......11..21....5....1....10
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh................22......1......5
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth20461311....................32
Congenital Defects4..1..5....2................8
Injury at Birth3......3......................3
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation..................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus521210927225..21..343
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis..........2........2..1......5
Tuberculous Peritonitis : Tabes Mesenterica..............1..1....111..5
Other Tuberculous Diseases..........111..1..11..2..8
Other Causes.Erysipelas..........1....................1
Syphilis..........11..................2
Rickets..........................11..2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)........................1....12
Convulsions112..4421..11..2......15
Bronchitis..21..33111..32111..17
Laryngitis....................1..........1
Pneumonia1. .....1....13222534427
Suffocation, overlying....1..1112..1............6
Other Causes1••....121..1• •..1........6
359124602815221311221316161314243
District (or Sub-division) of LimehousePopulation, estimated to middle of 190758,685
Births in the yearlesritimate1.841Deaths in the year oflegitimate infants237
illegitimate infants6
illegitimate14
Deaths from all causes and all ages, 1,018.