London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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

Southwark 1970

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 3Births

TABLE 3

Births

Live Births
Hospital confinements3,821
Domiciliary confinements2294,050
Still Births
Hospital confinements3739
Domiciliary confinements2
Deaths of infants in first week of life33
Deaths of infants one week to one month11
Deaths of infants one month to one year33
Perinatal mortality per 1,000 total live and stillbirths18
Neonatal mortality per 1,000 live births11
Infant mortality per 1,000 live births17