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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
Enfield 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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TABLE II.
Infant Mortality
Net Deaths from stated causes at various Ages under One Year of Age.
| Causfs of Death. | Under 1 week. | 1 to 2 weeks. | 2 to 3 weeks. | 3 to 4 weeks. | Total under 4 weeks. | 4 weeks and under 3 months. | 3 months and under 6 months. | 6 months and under 9 months. | 9 months and under 12 months. | Total Deaths under One Year of Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | |||||
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 1 | – | – | ||||||||
| 1 | – | – | – | 1 | — | – | – | — | 1 | |
| — | – | – | – | — | 1 | – | – | — | 1 | |
| — | – | – | 1 | 1 | — | – | – | — | 1 | |
| 7 | – | – | – | 7 | — | – | – | — | 7 | |
| 1 | – | – | – | 1 | — | – | – | — | 1 | |
| – | – | – | 7 | — | – | – | — | 7 | ||
| – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | ||||
| 18 | — | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | 1 |
Net Births in the year :—Legitimate: Live births, 1,305 ; Stillbirths,
19. Illegitimate: Live births, 49; Still-births, 1.
Net Deaths in the year Legitimate Infants, 23; Illegitimate, 1.
It will be seen from Table II that of the 24 infants who died
before attaining the age of 1 year, 19 died within the first four
weeks of life, and of this number 18 deaths occurred in infants
under 1 week.
The infant mortality rate for the District is 17.72 and this
figure compares most favourably with the rest of the country.