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Stepney 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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LIMEHOUSE DIVISION.

TABLE V.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1909.

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

Cause of deathUnder 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1-2 Months.2-3 Months.o-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 1 Causes.Certified43710127229222220141813913168256
Uncertified..................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles..................115....3115
Scarlet Fever............................1..1
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)................1..............2
Whooping Cough..............2....2....1117
Diarrhoeal Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms..........42234312..1..22
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis............25424....11120
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..................1............2
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth26543383....................41
Congenital Defects3..1..62....................8
Injury at Birth4......4......................4
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation..................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus6123124675112121143
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis..............1..1..1..11..5
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mosenterica............1..................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases..........1..121..11......7
Other Causes.Erysipelas............1..................1
Syphilis................................1
Rickets..................1............1
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)................1..11........6
Convulsions....11441..311......1..15
Bronchitis....ll23411..31....1118
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia..........311..12..125319
Suffocation, overlying......22211................6
Other Causes2..l..3331• •....1........11
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^ legitimate 1,886
Births in the year J
( illegitimate 32
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 1,033.
Population, estimated to middle of 1909 . . 58,963
_ ,, . ,, „ ( legitimate infants 244
Deaths m the year of j ilfegitimate infants 12