London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
24
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 1938 fell to 1.82, compared with 2.06 in the previous
year.
The seven maternal deaths all occurred in married women and
the actual causes were sepsis following abortion (2), intracranial
thrombosis (1), vomiting of pregnancy (1), cesarean section (1),
antepartum haemorrhage (1), and acute inversion of the uterus (1).
The maternal mortality based upon the 55 deaths and 27,688
births in Lambeth during the past seven years is 1.98.
Infantile Mortality Rates
The infantile mortality rate is based upon the number of deaths
under one year of age per 1,000 live births registered. The corrected
number of births was 3,846, a decrease of 27 compared with the
number of births in the year previous. The corrected number of
deaths was 196, giving an infantile mortality rate of 51.
In the Registration Sub-Districts, the corrected infantile mortality varies thus:—
| Registration Sub-Districts | Total No. of Births | Total Deaths under 1 year | Infantile Mortality per 1,000 Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambeth North | 386 | 30 | 77 |
| Prince's | 317 | 17 | 53 |
| Lambeth Central | 1,416 | 64 | 45 |
| Lambeth South | 1,727 | 85 | 49 |
| Borough | 3,816 | 193 | 51 |