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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
London County Council 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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rate for puerperal fever deaths was 1.15 in 1935, and for other puerperal causes
1.37 in 1911.
The deaths from puerperal fever and other puerperal causes per thousand live
births in each metropolitan borough and in the county of London in the periods 1921
to 1930 and 1931 to 1936, together with the deaths in childbirth in 1936, are shown in
the following table :—
Table 19.
| Metropolitan boroughs arranged in topographical order | Childbirth deaths* per 1,000 live births | Number of deaths in childbirth 1936 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-30 | 1931-36 | ||||||||
| Puerperal fever | Other causes | Total | Puerperal fever | Other causes | Total | Puerperal fever | Other causes | Total | |
| Paddington | 1.6 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Kensington | 2.2 | 1.5 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Hammersmith | 1.9 | 1.9 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Fulham | 2.1 | 1.5 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Chelsea | 1.9 | 3.1 | 5.0 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.3 | - | 2 | 2 |
| Westminster | 2.1 | 3.2 | 5.3 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 3.3 | - | 2 | 2 |
| St. Marylebone | 2.3 | 2.5 | 4.8 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 4.0 | - | 2 | 2 |
| Hampstead | 1.9 | 2.3 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| St. Pancras | 1.2 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 3.9 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| Islington | 1.6 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Stoke Newington | 2.3 | 2.0 | 4.3 | 0.9 | 3.5 | 4.4 | - | 4 | 4 |
| Hackney | 1.6 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Holborn | 2.4 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 3.6 | - | - | - |
| Finsbury | 1.3 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 1 | - | 1 |
| City of London | 3.7 | 0.9 | 4.6 | 4.9 | - | 4.9 | - | - | - |
| Shoreditch | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2.0 | - | - | - |
| Bethnal Green | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Stepney | 1.0 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Poplar | 1.1 | 1.6 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Southwark | 1.3 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 2.9 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Bermondsey | 1.0 | 1.8 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 3.3 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Lambeth | 1.6 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Battersea | 0.9 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Wandsworth | 1.6 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Camberwell | 1.9 | 1.5 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| Deptford | 1.5 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 2.9 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Greenwich | 1.2 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 3.8 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Lewisham | 1.2 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Woolwich | 1.4 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 2.6 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
* Including deaths due to abortion except those legally determined to have resulted from criminal
interference.
The deaths in childbirth in 1936 are shown in the above table but not the deathrates,
as, owing to the smallness of the figures, the rates for a single year may be
misleading. The maternal mortality rates for each metropolitan borough in 1936 and
for London as a whole annually since 1922 are, however, set out in tables 28 and 30.