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Stepney 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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MILE END 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 Tear.
All Causes.Certified782329141446331372423152115221917431
Uncertified........••........................
Small-pox..................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Chicken-pox..................................
Measles................1......121510
Scarlet Fever................1....1..11..4
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)..........1......1........114
Whooping Cough............4..1..11224..15
Diarrhœal Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms....1128243144113235
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gantro-enteritis1312744........211..1....20
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh11....2321..............19
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth45553584....................62
Congenital Defects12321182................1..21
Injury at Birth71....8..... .................8
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation..................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus5361151110177613212..75
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis..................11......114
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..........1........1..........2
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................1......1..24
Other Causes.Erysipelas....1..1......................1
Syphilis. .222611211..1........13
Rickets. ........ .......1....1......13
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..............11............14
Convulsions313i87312111..3....27
Bronchitis....4l51024221221....31
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia111..38123446673350
Suffocation, overlying1......1113..........1....8
Other Causes23321021212....1..2..21
782329141446331372423152115221917431
Births in the yearlegitimate,3,764Population, estimated to middle of 1907117,529
illegitimate,68Deaths in the year oflegitimate infants,413
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 1,708illegitimate infants,18