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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

Hackney 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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12
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of 96 children under the age of twelve months were
allocated to Hackney by the Registrar-General during 1940. This
number of deaths gives an infantile mortality rate of 40.20 per
1,000 live births, the rate for England and Wales being 55 and for
London 50.

Table: The causes of death are set out in the following table:—

The causes of death are set out in the following table:—

Cause of Death.Under 24 hrs.1 day to 1 week.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 4 weeks.1-3 months.3-6 months.6-9 months.9-12 months.Total
Asphyxia....1..12..1....3
Atelectasis32..1..6........6
Bronchitis............13217
Cerebro-spinal fever..............21..3
Congenital defects27......9432..18
Diarrhoea............32..38
Influenza..................11
Marasmus............123..6
Measles..................11
Pneumonia..11....2442..12
Prematurity10212116..1....17
Respiratory disease............1......1
Scalds..................11
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary..................11
” Non-Pulmonary..................11
War operations............l..113
Whooping cough..............1....1
Other causes....11..2..2116
Totals1512442371521121196

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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
During 1940 there were 2 deaths of Hackney women resulting
from Puerperal Sepsis and 4 from other causes directly connected
with childbirth. These deaths represent a death-rate of 2.44 per
1,000 total births as compared with a rate for England and Wales
of 2.16.