Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
There were 52 deaths registered of infants under one year of age, as against 842 births; the proportion which the deaths under one year of age bear to 1,000 births, is therefore 61, as against 58 in the preceding year.
Year. | Rate of Infantile Mortality. | Rate for London generally. | Rate for England and Wales. |
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A comparison of the causes of Infantile Mortality in 1925 with
those of the preceding year shows a decrease during last year
in the deaths from Pneumonia and Debility; whereas there was
an increase in the deaths from Enteritis.
The causes contributing to a high rate of mortality have been
discussed in previous reports, and it will suffice to call attention to
the fact that of 52 children who died under the age of one year,
22 deaths were ascribed to Prematurity, Wasting, and Congenital
Defects, and 10 to Bronchitis and Pneumonia, a total of 32 deaths
resulting from these causes.