Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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DEATHS, CAUSES OF, AND AGES AT, DURING THE YEAR 1937—contd.
Causes of Death. | Sex. | All Ages. | 0- | 1- | 2- | 5- | 15- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Other digestive diseases | M. | 23 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
F. | 21 | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 | 7 | 1 | 7 | |
Acute & chronic nephritis | M. | 28 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | 6 | 8 | 8 | 3 |
F. | 43 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 15 | |
Puerperal sepsis | F. | 3 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – |
Other Puerperal causes | F. | 3 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – |
Congenital debility, premature birth, malformation, etc. | M. | 36 | 36 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
F. | 37 | 36 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | |
Senility | M. | 33 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 30 |
F. | 58 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7 | 51 | |
Suicide | M. | 12 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | – |
F. | 11 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Other Violence | M. | 40 | – | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
F. | 33 | – | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | |
Other defined diseases | M. | 95 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 27 |
F. | 111 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 26 | 14 | |
Causes ill-defined or unknown | M. | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
F. | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
Infantile Mortality
The number of deaths of infants under one year of age was
185, three less than in 1936, representing an infant mortality rate
of 58 per 1,000 births.
The number of deaths of illegitimate infants was 13, furnishing
a death rate of 96 per 1,000 illegitimate births.
The chief causes of death in infants under one year were
prematurity 72 deaths, pneumonia 32 deaths, and diarrhoea and
enteritis 39 deaths.
A table showing the classification of the total deaths appear
on page 12.
Neo-Natal Deaths
The number of deaths registered of infants under one month
old was 62, representing a neo-natal death rate of 19.6 per 1,000 live
births as compared with 25.4 in 1936.
The classification of these deaths into groups of causes of death is shown in the following summary:—
1. Difficult Labour. | |
Injury at birth | 3 |
2. Foetal States | |
Congenital defects | 8 |
Atelectasis | 4 |
Atrophy, debility and marasmus | 3 |
Asphyxia neonatorum | 3 |
3. Prematurity | 32 |
4. Other causes | 9 |