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1925
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Nearly one half of the patients with Rheumatic Fever show
evidences of heart disease.
In second and subsequent attacks of Rheumatic Fever the
risk of heart affection is greater.
Fifty per cent. of patients with Rheumatic Fever have enlarged
or septic tonsils.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Infantile Mortality.— Eighty deaths occurred in children under
one year of age. This corresponds to an infantile mortality of 76
per 1,000 births, compared with an infantile mortality of 56
per 1,000 births in 1924.
The infantile mortality in the whole of England and Wales
was 75 per 1,000 births; in London 67, and in the 105 County
Boroughs and great towns, including London, 79 per 1,000 births.
The deaths were distributed as follows :—
North-East Ward 22
North-West Ward 11
South-East Ward 13
South-West Ward 34
It has been previously explained that the addresses of all the
births belonging to the district which occur in outside districts are
not obtained. In most instances we are informed of the birth
by the Medical Officer of Health in whose district the birth has
occurred. But from the Registrar-General's return at the end of
the year it is evident that all Medical Officers of Health do not
follow this practice, and some births are untraced and cannot be
allotted to Wards.
The exact infantile mortality of each Ward cannot therefore
be given, but approximately the infantile mortality of the Wards
was as follows:—
North-East Ward 75
North-West Ward 65
South-East Ward 69
South-West Ward 90