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Stepney 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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MILE END DIVISION.

table v.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1909.

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.Certified801421191344339272222161521151324391
Uncertified..................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................1
Measles..........11..1....1442620
Scarlet Fever..................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)..........................1126
Whooping Cough................1..1..........24
Diarrhoeal Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms..........14423123..1122
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis......1146765242..1240
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh....1..1....31..1..1......7
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth383835233..................58
Congenital Defects101..1121....1..............14
Injury at Birth8......8......................8
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation................................... ,
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1256528135242311....160
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis............. .....................12
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica........... ...........1............1
Other Tuberculous Diseases............1..1....11......4
Other Causes.Frysipelas....1..1..............1........2
Syphilis......2231....................6
Rickets..........1........1........2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..............1..1............2
Convulsions71..2103311411....3..27
Bronchitis1..124341131121..122
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia..12142523232583847
Suffocation, overlying3..2166241..... .........19
Other Causes13..15241....1..2..2..17
80 .1421191344339272222161521151324391

legitimate, 3,608
Births in the year illegitimate, 66
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 1,663
Population, estimated to middle of 1909 119,159
legitimate infants, 370
Deaths in the year of illegitimate infants, 21