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All these deaths, with one exception, were those of children under five years
of age.
Certain class rooms were closed, or the unprotected children under five years
of age were excluded in twenty-three Schools in the Borough for a certain period
of 1910 ranging from three days to three weeks.
Whooping Cough.
The number of deaths from Whooping Cough was 110, or 45 more than in the
previous year. This corresponds to a death rate of .34 per 1,000 of the population,
while that for the whole of London was .28 per 1,000.
42 belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate of .70 per 1,000 of
the population.
16 belonged to St. George-in-the-East, or at the rate of .29 per 1.000 of
the population.
40 belonged to Mile End Old Town, or at the rate of .33 per 1,000 of the
population.
12 belonged to the Whitechapel District, or at the rate of .14 per 1,000 of
the population.
Diarrhoea.
The number of deaths from Diarrhoea (which includes Epidemic and Zymotic
Enteritis, Dysentery and Dysenteric Diarrhoea, Cholera and Choleraic Diarrhoea)
was 128. Of these 103 were under one year of age.
27 belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate of .45 per 1,000 of
the population.
31 belonged to St. George-in-the-East, or at the rate of .56 per 1,000 of
the population.