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Hampstead 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of]

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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The number of deaths of Hampstead children under 1 year was
79, a decrease of 26 as compared with the previous year.

Table: In the following table these infantile deaths are distributed in Wards under their respective causes:—

In the following table these infantile deaths are distributed in Wards under their respective causes:—

CAUSE OF DEATH.WARDS.Non-distributable.Totals.
No. 1 (Town).No. 2 (Belsize).No. 3 (Adelaide).No. 4 (Central).No. 5 (West End).No. 6 (Kilburn).No. 7 (Priory).
1 Small-pox..................
2 Chicken-pox..................
3 Measles..1............1
4 Scarlet Fever..................
5 Whooping Cough......1........1
6 Diphtheria and Croup..................
7 Erysipelas1..............1
8 Tuberculous Meningitis..........1....1
9 Abdominal Tuberculosis..................
10 Other Tuberculous Diseases........1......1
11 Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..2......1....3
12 Convulsions2..1..131..8
13 Laryngitis................
14 Bronchitis..........21..3
15 Pneumonia (all forms)..2....161..10
16 Diarrhœa....11........2
17 Enteritis..................
18 Gastritis..................
19 Syphilis..........1....1
20 Rickets..................
21 Suffocation, overlying..........1....1
22 Injury at Birth....l..2....14
23 Atelectasis..1............1
24 Congenital Malformations......1..3i..5
25 Premature Birth5231422..19
26 Atrophy, Debility, and Marasmus2......351..11
27 Other Causes2......11..26
Totals1286413267379

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The "Infantile Mortality"—i.e., the number of deaths under one
year per 1000 births—was 62, as compared with the rate of 82 per 1000
births in 1911, this figure being calculated on the total number of births
belonging to Hampstead, including those that occurred in lying-in
institutions outside Hampstead. The average rate for the years 19071911
was 72.
The infantile death-rate for the year 1912, 61.7, was very low, and
only in one previous year has a lower rate been reached, viz., in 1910
when the rate was 60.