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Stepney 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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TABLE V.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1910.

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 Month*.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 Y ear.
AllCausesCertified186564442328107848455644548685948511041
Uncertified••..........••................••..
Common Infectious Diseases.Sinall-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..........................1....1
Measles..........1......126743933
Scarlet Fever....................1.....12
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)..................211......26
Whooping Cough..1....15247394855558
Diarrhoeal Diseases.Diarrhœa, all forms....2241011168124512876103
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis11..35832210..13 ,32140
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..1113252........1..1..14
Premature Birth1141665141431................149
Wasting Diseases.Congenital Defects2362536851..11..........52
Inj ury at Birth112....13......................13
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation..................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus171119855231720131066487..169
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis••................12251..112
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mosenterica..........131111......*411
Other Tuberculous Diseases...........1112......141..13
Other CausesErysipelas..........2..........11..• •..3
Syphilis..2..35-341....1......• •16
Rickets....................12211..9
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)12126....1212-1..12..16
Convulsions765..1865745 .33314..59
Bronchitis121591166..4..4242755
Laryngitis..............1..........11..3
Pneumonia321410121091171091614515128
Suffocation, overlying3221876511....11....30
Other Causes524314443352193244
86564442328107848455644548685948511041

Birtlis in the yen
legitimate, 8,980
illegitimate, 187
Population, estimated to middle of 1910 316,269
„ ( legitimate infants. 980
Deaths in the year of illegitimate infants 61
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 4,299