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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

Finsbury 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]

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Table: Infant Mortality, 1952—Causes of Death.

Infant Mortality, 1952—Causes of Death.

Cause of Death0-1 wk.1-2 wks.2-3 wks.3-4wks.Total under 4wks.1-3 mths.3-6 mths.6-9 mths.9-12 mths.Total under lyr.
Measles----------
Whooping Cough------1--1
Diphtheria----------
Pneumonia-----2---2
Diarrhoea and Enteritis----------
Congenital malformation11--2----2
Birth Injury and other diseases of early infancy----------
Immaturity4---4----4
Meningococcal Infection--------11
Other defined causes-----1---1
51--631-111

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The infant mortality rate breaks a new low record for this
Borough and represents a reduction of between 16 and 17 per cent,
of the previous record in 1950. It is only about one tenth of the
rate that prevailed at the beginning of the century, and less than one
third of that for 1946.
The neonatal mortality rate constituted also a low record and
it may be noted that there were no deaths in the first four weeks of
life from any causes other than congenital malformations and
Immaturity.