Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1916 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Deaths among Legitimate and Illegitimate Infants.
The death rate among illegitimate children is a matter of great
difficulty to deal with. Illegitimate children seldom receive the same
maternal care that is bestowed upon legitimate children, and that they
should be looked after as well as circumstances will permit is important,
and to ensure this, special attention is now being given to all illegitimate
births which come under our notice.
I have prepared the following figures to show the great difference
that exists in the infantile death-rates of legitimate and illegitimate
children under one year of age.
I have prepared the following figures to show the great difference that exists in the infantile death-rates of legitimate and illegitimate children under one year of age
Year. | Legitimate Infants. | Illegitimate Infants. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Births. | Deaths. | death-rate per i.ooo births. | Births. | Deaths. | death-rate periooo births. | |
1906 | 1403 | 106 | 75 | 34 | 5 | 147 |
1907 | 1298 | 85 | 65 | 43 | 13 | 302 |
1908 | 1326 | 87 | 66 | 29 | 10 | 345 |
1909 | 1239 | 88 | 71 | 43 | 11 | 256 |
1910 | 1233 | 71 | 57 | 36 | 10 | 278 |
1911 | 1239 | 94 | 76 | 37 | 11 | 297 |
3 912 | 1207 | 68 | 56 | 74 | 11 | 149 |
1913 | 1252 | 73 | 58 | 73 | 18 | 246 |
1914 | 1218 | 77 | 63 | 55 | 14 | 254 |
1915 | 1246 | 82 | 65 | 81 | 19 | 234 |
1916 | 1088 | 65 | 59 | 76 | 8 | 105 |
The following table shows the infantile mortality of Hnmpstead in each year since 1880, and it will be seen that the lowest rates occurred in the years 1912 & 1916 :—
1880 | 140 | 1893 | 102 | 1906 | 77 |
1881 | 136 | 1894 | 113 | 1907 | 69 |
1882 | 99 | 1895 | 135 | 1908 | 69 |
1883 | 98 | 1896 | 123 | 1909 | 74 |
1884 | 143 | 1897 | 127 | 1910 | 60 |
1885 | 110 | 1898 | 125 | 1911 | 82 |
1886 | 131 | 1899 | 129 | 1912 | 62 |
1887 | 107 | 1900 | 100 | 1913 | 69 |
1888 | 110 | 1901 | 102 | 1914 | 72 |
1889 | 122 | 1902 | 88 | 1915 | 76 |
1890 | 122 | 1903 | 87 | ] 916 | 62 |
1891 | 104 | 1904 | 111 | ||
1892 | 122 | 1905 | 94 | ||