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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
Ilford 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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Hydrocephalic foetus 1
Prematurity 1
Unknown 1
Five infants died from the following causes :—
Asphyxia from bronchitis, aged 3 months.
Convulsions and cerebral haemorrhage, aged 4 days.
Congenital cardiac malformation, aged 3 hours.
Melaena neonatorum, aged 4 days.
Pulmonary atelectasis, aged 9 hours.
Thirteen cases who applied for the services of the District
Midwife had to be refused owing to her services being already
booked.