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Chelsea 1937

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1937

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Table: The following Table gives the Infant Mortality Rate iri Chelsea under various headings, for the past two years:— TABLE No. 16.

The following Table gives the Infant Mortality Rate iri Chelsea under various headings, for the past two years:— TABLE No. 16.

1936.1937.
Infectious Diseases313.3
Diarrhceal Diseases20.49.9
Developmental Defects and Wasting15.622.9
Other causes14.122.9
Total Rate53.269.0

Table: TABLE No. 17. Infantile Mortality Rates per 1,000 Births in Wards.

TABLE No. 17. Infantile Mortality Rates per 1,000 Births in Wards.

1936.1937.
Hans Town1415
Royal Hospital8833
Church83107
Cheyne2143
Stanley5665
Chelsea Borough5359

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Illegitimate Deaths.—The following Table No. 18 shows the number
of deaths among illegitimate infants during the past two years.

Table: TABLE No. 18.

TABLE No. 18.

1936.1937.
Total number of illegitimate deaths under 1 year46
Illegitimate death rate67105

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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
During the year no deaths were primarily classified as due direct ly
to complications of pregnancy or childbirth.
In the case of every maternal death the circumstances are fully
investigated by the Medical Officer of Health, the findings being reported
to the Ministry of Health.