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St Pancras 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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II. EMPLOYMENT OF MOTHER IN RELATION TO HEALTH OF CHILD. B.—Children dying in first year.—
| Total in case of mothers industrially employed | In case of mothers industrially employed | In case of mothers not industrially employed. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| at home | in factory or workshop | elsewhere. e | |||||||
| I in lead. | Jotherwis | ||||||||
| Age at death | < 1 month | 5 | — | 1 | — | 4 | 10 | ||
| < 2 months | 2 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||
| <3 | 2 | — | — | — | 2 | 4 | |||
| <6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | ||||
| <12 | 9 | — | — | 2 | 7 | 7 | |||
| Not ascertained | 0 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |||
| Cause of death | Infectious Diseases | 22 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | |
| Diarrhœal Diseases | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Wasting Diseases in | |||||||||
| eluding premature birth | 6 | — | 1 | — | 5 | 9 | 42 | ||
| Other Diseases | 4 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 10 | |||
| Respiratory Diseases | 7 | — | — | 1 | 6 | 13 | |||
| Not ascertained | 0 | — | — | — | — | 4 | |||
| Mean age at death | 4¼ mths. | 3 mths. | 3 weeks | 4½ mths. | 5 ¼mths. | 3 mths. | |||
C.—Miscarriages, Still Births (previous to the inquiry)—Baby whether surviving or dead within 12 months.
| Industrial work discontinued before < confinement | Not begun during | 21 | Of 300 mothers not industrially employed in the case of 46 mothers there had been previous miscarriages and still births. | ||||||
| this pregnancy | 2 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| < 1 week | 3 | — | — | 2 | |||||
| < 2 weeks | — | — | 1 | ||||||
| <3„ | 0 | — | — | — | _ | ||||
| < 4 „ | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | ||||
| <8 „ | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | ||||
| <12 | 5 | _ | — | — | 5 | ||||
| <26 | 4 | _ | — | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Over 26 weeks | 1 | — | — | _ | 1 | ||||
| Time not ascertained | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | ||||
| Industrial work resumed after confinement within | 4 weeks | 21 | 6 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| 6 „ | 0 | _ | _ | __ | |||||
| 8 „ | 3 | — | — | — | 3 | ||||
| 12 „ | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | ||||
| 52 „ | 2 | — | — | 2 | — | ||||
| Not within year | 5 | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Time not ascertained | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 |
Thus, in the case of 21 mothers, out of a total of 114 mothers industrially
employed there had been previous miscarriages and still births.
And in the case of 46 mothers, out of a total of 300 mothers not industrially
employed, there had been previous miscarriages and still births.
For the total number of miscarriages and still births among these mothers
see Summary, Table I., " Cases under Inquiry."