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Ilford 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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Illegitimate Births and Deaths.
41 of the births registered (21 males and 20 females) were
illegitimate, that is 2.0 per Cent. of the births registered.
Two illegitimate children died under one year of age.
The deaths of the two illegitimate children occurred as
follows:— One died at three months at the Hospital for Sick Children,
Great Ormond Street, from cachexia, enteritis, double hare lip
and cleft palate; one died at six months at Queen Mary's Hospital,
Stratford, from acute suppurative lymphadenitis of neck and
septicemia.
The infant mortality rate of illegitimate children was 48.8 per 1,000, compared with the infant mortality rate of 55.7 for legitimate children. The following table shows the death-rate of illegitimate and legitimate infants for the past ten years: —
| 1931 | 41 | 2 | 48 | 1,938 | 108 | 55 |
| 1930 | 36 | 3 | 83 | 1,809 | 58 | 32 |
| 1929 | 40 | 4 | 100 | 1,715 | 83 | 48 |
| 1928 | 35 | 10 | 286 | 1,704 | 69 | 40 |
| 1927 | 44 | 9 | 204 | 1,613 | 65 | 40 |
| 1926 | 34 | 5 | 147 | 1,475 | 63 | 43 |
| 1925 | 49 | 11 | 224 | 1,437 | 67 | 46 |
| 1924 | 31 | 7 | 226 | 1,405 | 55 | 39 |
| 1923 | 41 | 7 | 171 | 1,565 | 59 | 38 |
| 1922 | 37 | 5 | 135 | 1.438 | 75 | 52 |
Maternal Mortality.
The total number of deaths due to childbirth during the year
was seven, which gives a maternal mortality rate (i.e., number of
deaths per 1,000 births) of 3.5.