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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
Fulham 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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Infantile Deaths:-
There were 45 deaths of infants under the age of one year. A large
number of deaths in the first month being, as is usual, due to prematurity,
immaturity and congenital malformation.
Cause of death
1950
1949
Whooping Cough
1
2
Pneumonia
5
6
Gastritis, enteritis & diarrhoea
4
4
Prematurity
12
11
Asphyxia
1
2
Atelectasis
5
—
Congenital Malformations
10
19
Meningitis
1
1
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
—
1
Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis
1
—
Want of attention at birth
1
1
All other causes
4
6
45
53
The Infant Mortality rate was 25 per 1,000
live births (26.4 in 1949).
There were 3 maternal deaths in 1950 giving a
rate of 1.7 per 1,000 births (live and still).