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Bethnal Green 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
During the year, the following deaths were noted:
1. Septicaemia following septic abortion.
2. Uterine haemorrhage, retention of placenta.
These cases give a Maternal Mortality rate of
1.4 per 1,000 total births (live and still). In England
and Wales the rate was 3.1 per 1,000 births.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Seventy eight deaths of Bethnal Green infants
under one year of age are recorded as having
taken place during the year. This is equal to
a rate of infantile mortality of 59 per 1,000
births. The infant death rate for London was 57
and for England and Wales as a whole 53.
Comparison with previous years is as follows: —
| 1927 | 57.7 |
| 1928 | 73.9 |
| 1929 | 64.4 |
| 1930 | 60.3 |
| 1931 | 87.7 |
| 1932 | 69.1 |
| 1933 | 66.3 |
| 1934 | 72.6 |
| 1935 | 51.0 |
| 1936 | 98.0 |
| 1937 | 54.0 |