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Battersea 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Infant Mortality.
. During 1958 the deaths of 45 infants under 1 year of age were
Registered as belonging to Battersea. The total number of live births
registered during the year was 1,878 giving an infant mortality rate
23.96 per 1,000 live births as compared with 22.33 in 1957 and
23.74 in 1956.
The infant mortality rate in England and Wales during 1958
Was 22.6.
The following table sets out the causes of death in detail. Infant Mortality, 1958. Nett deaths from stated causes at various ages under 1 year.
| causes ofdeath | AGE PERIODS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under24 hours | 1-7 days | Weeks | Total under 4 weeks | Months | Total deaths under 1 year | Percentage of Total | |||||||||||||||||
| 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 1-3 | 3-6 | 6-9 | 9-12 | |||||||||||||||||
| m. | F. | m. | F. | m. | f. | m. | f. | m. | f. | m. | F. | m. | F. | m. | F. | m. | F. | m. | F. | m. | F. | ||
| Pneumonia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 6.7 |
| bronchitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Gastritis, enteritis and diarrhoea | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2.2 |
| Congenital malformations | 1 | 1 | _ | 1 | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 7 | 20.0 | |
| Other defined and ill-defined diseases:- | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prematurity | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 9 | 42.2 |
| Other causes | 6 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 | 3 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 8 | 5 | 28.9 |
| TOTAL | 13 | 11 | 4 | 2 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 4 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | 21 | 24 | 100.0 |
| 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 7 | 1 | – | 2 | 45 | |||||||||||||
| Percentage of total | 53.4 | 13.4 | 4.4 | 2.2 | 4.4 | 77.8 | 15.6 | 2.2 | – | 4.4 | 100.0 | M.46.7 F. 53.3 | |||||||||||
There were 35 deaths of infants during the first four weeks of
life (or 77.8 per cent. of the total infant deaths) as compared with
34 deaths (or 83.0 per cent.) in 1957 and a percentage for the
quinquennium 1953-1957 of 73.3.