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Public Offices,
Enfield, Middx.
June, 1944.
To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District Council
of Enfield.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to place before you my Annual Report on the Health
of the women and children in Enfield during the year 1943.
The number of children born to Enfield residents during the
year constitutes a record, being 1965 as compared with 1824 in
1942. Our infantile mortality rate at 47.69 per 1000 births is
1.31 less than that for England and Wales as a whole.
Satisfactory as these figures may be they nevertheless require
some careful consideration. Although the health of the babies
in Enfield generally has reached, and is being maintained, at a
high standard, it is nevertheless a fact that during the year, 92
children died before they attained the age of one year. In so far
as it is possible all such deaths are investigated and I asked Doctor
Rivlin to correlate the information obtained and report thereon
to me. I am indebted to Doctoi Rivlin for her report on this
subject and for her valuable assistance throughout the year.
We were able to obtain information concerning 58 of the above
deaths. Thirty-six of them occurred in the first month of life,
of which 28 occurred in the first week. Of the 28, 20 were males
and 8 were females.