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Feltham 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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Deaths
| Total | 290 | Male | 172 | Female | 118. | ||||
| Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population— 6.22 (1951 7.03). Comparability Factor 1.41. Adjusted Death Rate 8.77. | |||||||||
| Maternal Mortality | |||||||||
| (Heading 30 of the Registrar-General's Short List) | |||||||||
| Deaths. Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births | |||||||||
| No. 30. Pregnancy, Childbirth Abortion | — | — | (1951 —) | ||||||
| Total | — | — | (1951 —) | ||||||
| INFANT MORTALITY | |||||||||
| 20.22 | (1951 18.23) | ||||||||
| Legitimate infants per 1.000 legitimate live births (16) | 21.16 | (1951 17.36) | |||||||
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births (—) | — | (1951 45.45) | |||||||
| (1951 11.22) | |||||||||
| Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births (11) 14 | 14.55 | (19.51 11.57) | |||||||
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegi-mate live births (0) | (1951 — ) | ||||||||
| Rate per 1,000 live births | |||||||||
| Deaths from Diarrhoea (under two years 1) | 1.26 | ||||||||
| Birth and Death Rates for England and Wales, 1952:— | |||||||||
| Birth rate | 15.3 | ||||||||
| Still Birth rate | 0.35 | ||||||||
| Death rate | 11.3 | ||||||||
| Deaths under one year of age | 27.6 | ||||||||
| Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years of age) | 1.1 | ||||||||
| Maternal Mortality—England and Wales, 1952:— | |||||||||
| Sepsis of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | 0.09 | ||||||||
| Abortion with toxaemia | 0.02 | ||||||||
| Other Toxaemias of pregnancy and the puerperium | 0.21 | ||||||||
| Haemorrhage of pregnancy and childbirth | 0.09 | ||||||||
| Abortion without mention of sepsis or toxaemia | 0.04 | ||||||||
| Abortion with sepsis | 0.07 | ||||||||
| Other complications of pregnancy. childbirth and the puerperium | 0.20 | ||||||||