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Stepney 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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WHITECHAPEL DIVISION.

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 Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months,0-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months.9-10 Months.10-11 Months.11-12 Months.Total Deaths under One Y ear.
All i Causes. |Certified521412987221612710571491214215
Uncertified..................................
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles......................3....2510
Scarlet Fever....................1..........1
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)..................1..........23
Whooping Cough....................1..11..5
Diarrhoeal Diseases.Diarrhoea, all forms..........43322....312121
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Castro-enteritis1....2341........11......10
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh............1..................1
Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth26723381....................39
Congenital Defects1021..131..1....1..........16
Inj ury at Birth5......5......................5
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation..................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus617317311....21..1....26
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis........................2......2
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica............................1..1
Other Tuberculous Diseases........................1......1
Other Causes.Erysipelas................................1
Syphilis ...1....1..2..................3
Rickets..................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)1......1......11........1..4
Convulsions211..42..3..2..11......13
Bronchitis......11321........13..213
Laryngitis..........................11..2
Pneumonia..........15..32..1422222
Suffocation, overlying..11121..1................4
Other Causes11....211212........1212
521412987221612710571491214215

Birtlis in tlie .year
legitimate, 1,887
illegitimate. 65
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 1,010
Population, estimated to middle of 1909 .82,017
Peaths in the year of
legitimate infants, 198
Iillegitimate infants, 17