Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health page 139

Hampstead 1914

Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health

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139
Infantile Mortality.
The number of deaths of Hampstead children under 1 year was 91,
being the same number as occurred in 1913.

Table: In the following table these infantile deaths are distributed in Wards under their respective causes:—

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In the following table these infantile deaths are distributed in Wards under their respective causes:—

CAUSE OF DEATH.	WARDS.							Totals.
	No. 1 (Town).	No. 2 (Belsize).	No. 3 (Adelaide).	No. 4 (Central).	No. 5 (West End).	No. 6 (Kilburn).	No. 7 (Priory).
	No. 1 (Town).	No. 2 (Belsize).	No. 3 (Adelaide).	No. 4 (Central).	No. 5 (West End).	No. 6 (Kilburn).	No. 7 (Priory).		1 Small-pox	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
2 Chicken-pox	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
3 Measles	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	2
4 Scarlet Fever	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
5 Whooping Cough	4	..	..	1	1	4	..	10
6 Diphtheria and Croup	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
7 Erysipelas	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
8 Tuberculous Meningitis	1	..	1	..	1	..	1	4
9 Abdominal Tuberculosis	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1
10 Other Tuberculous Diseases	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
11 Meningitis (not Tuberculous)	..	1	..	..	1	1	..	3
12 Convulsions	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	2
13 Laryngitis	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
14 Bronchitis	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	2
15 Pneumonia (all forms)	..	..	..	..	..	2	2	4
16 Diarrhœa	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	2
17 Enteritis	..	..	..	..	..	3	2	5
18 Gastritis	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
19 Syphilis	..	1	..	..	..	1	..	2
20 Rickets	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
21 Suffocation, overlying	..	..	..	..	..	2	2	4
22 Injury at Birth	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1
23 Atelectasis	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
24 Congenital Malformations	..		1	..	2	2	1	6
25 Premature Birth	3	4	1	2	3	..	2	15
26 Atrophy, Debility, and Marasmus	1	2	..	..	5	5	5	18
27 Other Causes	4	..	1	••	2	3	..	10
Totals	14	9	5	4	18	25	16	91

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The "Infantile Mortality "—i.e., the number of deaths under one
year per 1000 births —was 71.5, as compared with the rate of 68.7 per 1000
births in 1913, this figure being calculated on the total number of births
belonging to Hampstead, including those that occurred in lying-in
institutions outside Hampstead. The average rate for the years 19091913
was 69.5.

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Table: In the following table these infantile deaths are distributed in Wards under their respective causes:—

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