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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 1957
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1957
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of total registered (16).
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INFANT MORTALITY
Sixteen infants under the age of one year died during 1957, as
compared with twenty-one and twenty-five in 1956 and 1955 respectively,
Eighty-one per cento of the deaths now under review occurred before
the age of four weeks was attained. Deaths were attributable to -
Males
Females
Asphyxia 2 2
Atelectasis 1 2
Haemorrhage, Cerebral 1 -
Malformations, Congenital 3 -
Prematurity 1 4
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