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Metropolitan
boroughs
arranged m
topographical order
Childbirth deaths* per 1,000 live.births
Number of deaths
in childbirth
1944
1931.40
1941.44
Puerperal
fever
Other
causes
Total
Puerperal
fever
Other
causes
Total
Puerperal
fever
Other
causes
Total
Western
Paddington
1.9
2.2
4.1
1.2
1.1
2.3
1
1
2
Kensington
1.5
1.6
3.1
0.8
1.2
2.0
-
1
1
Hammersmith
1.0
1.2
2.2
0.8
0.9
1.7
1
1
2
Fulham
1.1
1.6
2.7
1.1
1.1
2.2
-
2
2
Chelsea
1.5
1.8
3.3
1.4
1.4
2.8
1
-
1
Westminster
2.0
1.4
3.4
2.9
1.1
4.0
1
—
1
Northern
St. Marylebone
1.5
2.1
3.6
1.2
2.0
3.2
1
3
4
Hampstead
0.8
1.4
2.2
0.3
2.1
2.4
-
1
1
St. Pancras
1.4
1.7
3.1
1.2
1.6
2.8
2
4
6
Islington
1.2
1.5
2.7
1.0
1.5
2.5
3
5
8
Stoke Newington
0.6
2.9
3.5
1.3
1.7
3.0
-
2
2
Hackney
0.9
1.4
2.3
0.4
0.8
1.2
1
—
1
Central
Holborn
2.1
1.4
3.5
3.7
3.7
-
-
Finsbury
0.8
0.7
1.6
1.2
1.8
3.0
1
1
City of London
3.3
3.3
—
—
—
-
-
-
Eastern
Shorediteh
0.8
1.4
2.2
2.0
0.8
2.8
1
1
2
Bethnal Green
1.1
1.0
2.1
0.9
0.6
1.5
1
-
1
Stepney
0.9
1.7
2.6
0.6
1.7
2.3
-
-
-
Poplar
1.4
1.1
2.5
1.8
1.5
3.3
1
3
4
Southern
Southwark
0.9
1.7
2.6
1.1
0.9
2.0
1
-
1
Bermondsey
1.3
1.5
2.8
1.6
1.9
3.5
3
2
5
Lambeth
1.0
1.1
2.1
1.2
1.1
2.3
5
4
9
Battersea
1.2
1.5
2.7
0.9
0.2
1.1
2
-
2
Wandsworth
1.6
1.4
2.9
1.1
1.4
2.5
4
4
8
Camberwell
1.2
1.5
2.7
1.3
1.4
2.7
2
2
4
Deptford
1.1
1.3
2.4
1.3
0.8
2.1
1
-
1
Greenwich
1.2
1.5
2.7
0.2
0.5
0.7
.
1
1
Lewisliam
1.1
1.6
2.7
1.0
1.5
2.5
1
2
3
Woolwich
0.8
1.1
1.9
0.3
1.4
1.7
1
2
3
London
1.2
1.6
2.7
1.0
1.2
2.2
34
42
76
The deaths in childbirth in 1944 are shown in the above table but not the death.
rates, as, owing to the smallness of the figures, the rates for a single year in any
metropolitan borough may be misleading. The maternal mortality rates for each
metropolitan borough in 1944 and for London as a whole annually since 1938 are,
however, set out in the table on page 9. The death.rates per 1,000 live births in
London and England and Wales in recent years are shown in the following table:—
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944[/##]
Puerperal fever—
London
1.09
1.34
1.15
0.75
0.84
0.79
0.05
0.98
1.47
1.13
0.95
0.70
England and Wales
1.83
2 03
1.08
1.39
0.98
0.89
0.77
0.82
0.85
0.80
0.75
0.62
Utner causes—
London
1.97
1.46
1.43
1.23
1.45
1.12
1 .32
1.00
1.58
1.38
1.18
0.94
England and Wales
2.68
2.57
2.42
2.41
2.28
2.19
2.16
1.88
2 01
1.70
1.00
1.38