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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 1944

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: The following table gives the cause of death during the first month of life: —

The following table gives the cause of death during the first month of life: —

(1) Complications of Labour— Trauma at Birth4
(2) Foetal States—4
Congenital Heart Malformation5
Other Congenital Deformities7
Atelectasis, etc.12
Hemorrhagic Disease of Newborn3
27
(3) Prematurity46
46
(4) Post-Natal Causes17
017
94

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Percentage Deaths per
Deaths per 1,000
Total Infantile Deaths.
Births.
1943
1944
1943
1944
Premature Births
28.5
32.1
10.6
14.0
Respiratory Diseases
(Pneumonia and Bronchitis.)
20.4
17.3
7.6
7.5
Infectious Diseases (including
Tuberculosis)
0.7
4.5
0.3
2.0
Atelectasis, Debility and
Marasmus
9.5
9.6
3.5
4.2
†Diseases of Digestion
12.4
10.3
4.7
4.5
Injury at Birth and Congenital
12.4
15.4
4.7
6.7
*These deaths were due to Tuberculosis 2 and Whooping Cough 5.
†These deaths were due to Diarrhoea 15 and Intestinal Obstruction 1.
MIDWIFERY SERVICE.
Midwives Acts, 1902 to 1936.
Seventy-eight midwives notified the Local Supervising
Authority of their intention to practice within the Borough
during 1944. Twenty-four ceased practising in the Borough; so
that fifty-four remained on the Register at the end of the year.
All these were trained and held the certificate of the Central Midwives
Board.