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Infant Mortality.
The total number of deaths of infants under one year of age
was 49, the causes of death beinsr as follows:
Gastritis, Enteritis and Diarrhoea 4
Meningococcal Infeotions 1
Pneumonia 8
Bronchitis 2
Congenital malformations 12
Other defined and ill-defined diseases 21
All aooidents, other than by motor vehicle 1
Total deaths under 1 year of age 49
Maternal Mortality.
One maternal death was recorded during the year.
Infectious Diseases
The final figures of corrected diagnoses of Infectious
Diseases in the Borough during 1952 were only about twothirds
of the previous year's totals.
Substantial decreases will be noted in Dysentery, Measles and
Whooping Cough, but in comparison with 1951, the current
cases of Food Poisoning, Poliomyelitis, Pneumonia, Scabies and
Scarlet Fever show an appreciable increase. There were
four cases of Diphtheria, the highest since 1949; these all
occurred together in an L.C.C. institution.
There was very little change in the number of Tuberculosis
notifications.
Whilst the deaths from pneumonia were exactly the same as
for 1951, those from Influenza were fewer; in both cases they
were mostly in the over-45 age groups. There was an increase
in respiratory Tuberculosis deaths, the majority being in the
45-64 age groups.
Only one other death from defined notifiable infectious
diseases occurred, that of a baby from meningococcal infection.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
There was again an increase in these notifications. Of the
30 cases, 27 developed the infection in hospitals subsequent to
admission for confinement; the remaining 3 cases were in home
confinements.