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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Croydon 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The following table gives the cause of death during the first month of life;-
| 1. Complications of Labour | ||
| Trauma at Birth | 4 | |
| 4 | ||
| 2. Foetal States | ||
| Congenital Heart Malformation | 3 | |
| Other congenital deformities etc. | 3 | |
| Atelectasis etc. | 4 | |
| 10 | ||
| 3. Prematurity | 25 | |
| 25 | ||
| 4, Post-natal causes | 9 | |
| 9 | ||
| 48 | ||
Percentage Deaths per
Total. Infantile Deaths
Deaths per 1,000
Births
1911
1940
1941
1940
Premature Births
fc.7.7
19.8
10.4
7.8
Respiratory Diseases
(Pneumonia
Bronchitis etc,)
4.4
23.3
12.1
9.2
^Infectious Diseases
(Including Tuberculosisj
5.5
3.4
2.1
1.4
Atelectasis, Debility
and Marasmus
4.4
9.5
1. v
3.7
*Diseases of Digestion.
5.5
10.3
2.1
4.1
Injury at Birth and
Congenital
12.2
17.2
4.6
6.8
0 Analysed these deaths were due to Measles 1; Whooping Cough 2; and
Tuberculosis (Meningitis end Miliary) 2.
x These deaths were due to Diarrhoea 5.