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Maternal Mortality.
The maternal mortality is expressed as the number of deaths
attributed to puerperal sepsis and other accidents and diseases of
pregnancy and parturition for each 1,000 live births. The rate in
Lambeth in 1937 rose to 2.06, compared with 0.77 in the previous
year.
Of the eight maternal deaths, six were married and two spinsters.
Three followed a septic abortion, two others became septicaemic
after delivery, and one each were due to shock, anaesthesia and
toxaemia.
Of two other deaths connected with abortion but not classified
as maternal deaths, one was from violence following the injection
of a powerful corrosive into the pregnant uterus, and the other from
misadventure due to the unintentional injection of a liquid into the
pregnant uterus.
In spite of the increase in the maternal mortality in 1937, the
average rate for the 23,842 corrected births which have taken
place in Lambeth during the past six years is only 2.01.
Infantile Mortality Rates
The infantile mortality rate is based upon the number of deaths
under one year of age per 1,000 births registered. The corrected
number of births was 3,873, an increase of 2 over the number of
births in the year previous. The correctcd number of deaths was
266, giving an infantile mortality rate of 68.