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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

Chelsea 1942

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1942

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Table: The following Table gives the Infant Mortality Rate in Chelsea under various headings, for the past FouiZ years :—

The following Table gives the Infant Mortality Rate in Chelsea under various headings, for the past FouiZ years :—

1939.1940.1941.1942.
Infectious Diseases3.9---
Diarrhoeal Diseases1.92.8-5.8
Developmental Defects and Wasting15.818.629.923.4
Other causes11.816.68. 520.5
Total Kate ...33.040.038.449.7

Table: TABLE No. 17.

TABLE No. 17.

1939.1940 .1941.1942.1943.
Hans Town__713640
Royal Hospital18_-8081
Church4724353144
Cheyne-56213148
Stanley4341276846
Chelsea Borough3340385070

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

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

1939.1940.1941.1942.1943.
Total number of illegitimate deaths under 1 year21158
Illegitimate death rate412629106114

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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
During the year onte deaths was primarily classified as due directly
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 beingrteported
to the Ministry of Health.