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Stepney 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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LIMEHOUSE DIVISION.

TABLE V.

Infantile Mortality during the Year1910.

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

Cause or Death.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1-2 Months, j2-3 Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-G 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.
AllCauses. 1Certified421351373232324151011162016511247
Uncertified..................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles......................241....7
Scarlet Fever..................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)....................1..........1
Whooping Cough..1....1222414132..325
Piarrhoeal Diseases.Diarrhœa, all forms....1• •1323212..232..22
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Gastro-enteritis......111....14....2......9
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..1113111................6
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth3011234..21................37
Congenital Defects42..3911..................11
Inj ury at Birth2......2......................2
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation....................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus2311753611..2331..32
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis....................111....14
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..................1........1..2
Other Tuberculous Diseases............1..1....1..21..6
Other Causes.Erysipelas..........1..2..............1
Syphilis....................1........3
Rickets........................11....2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)......11....11..............3
Convulsions32....5231....1..11....13
Bronchitis..2....2532..1..4......321
Laryngitis..........................3......
Pneumonia........21244..31....325
Suffocation, overlying......11..111• •............4
Other Causes1111412• •• •1..12......11
421351373232324151011162016511247

Births in the yeai
(\legitimate, 1,769
illegitimate, 32
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 929.
Population, estimated to middle of 1910 59,46
legitimate mrants, 235
illegitimate infants, 12
Deaths in the year of