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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
Hammersmith 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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This points out the necessity for greater attention to and
control of the expectant mother and better obstetrics if
these deaths are to be avoided.
Enteritis was responsible for the deaths of 27 babies and
pneumonia 18. These may be very properly ascribed to
lack of knowledge on the part of the mother in the problems
of infant feeding and "mothering."
The following table shows the deaths of infants under one year of age and the cause:—
| CAUSE OF DEATH. | Under 1 Week. | 1-2 Weeks. | 2-3 Weeks. | 3-4 Weeks. | Total undar 4 Weeks. | 4 Weeks, and under 3 months. | 3 months and under 6 months. | 6 months and under 9 months. | 9 months and under 1 year. | Total Deaths under 1 Year. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALL CAUSES. | Certified | 43 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 52 | 28 | 26 | 19 | 6 | 131 | |
| Uncertified | ||||||||||||
| Small-pox | ||||||||||||
| Chicken-pox | ||||||||||||
| Measles | ||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | ||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| Diphtheria and Croup | 1 | |||||||||||
| Erysipelas | ||||||||||||
| Tuberculous Meningitis | ||||||||||||
| Abdominal Tuberculosis | ||||||||||||
| Other Tuberculous Diseases | ||||||||||||
| Meningitis (not T.B.) | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Convulsions | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Laryngitis | ||||||||||||
| Bronchitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||||
| Pneumonia (all forms) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 18 | ||||
| Diarrhoea | ||||||||||||
| Enteritis | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 28 | |||||
| Gastritis | ||||||||||||
| Syphilis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Rickets | ||||||||||||
| Suffocation, Overlying | ||||||||||||
| Injury at Birth | 5 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||
| Atelectasis | 6 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||
| Congenital Malformations | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| Premature Births | 20 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 25 | |||||
| Atrophy, Debility & Marasmus | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | ||||||
| Other causes | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 15 | ||||
| Totals | 43 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 52 | 28 | 26 | 19 | 6 | 131 | ||
Nett Births in the Year: Legitimate. 1738; Illegitimate. 139
Nett Deaths in the Year of: Legitimate Infanta, 115; T'legitimate Infants, 16.