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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
Barking 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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The following table gives you similar information for the last eleven years :—
| Year. | Barking. | England and Wales Rate per 1,000 births. | ||
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| Deaths from | Rate per 1,000 births. | |||
| Puerperal Sepsis. | Other Puerperal Causes. | |||
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*Rate per thousand live births—figure not available in respect of rate per thousand total
births.
Whenever there is a case of maternal mortality, and even in cases where the
death is following abortion or where death is associated with pregnancy or childbirth
but primarily due to intercurrent diseases such as nephritis, tuberculosis, heart
disease, etc., full investigations are carried out and confidential reports communicated
to the Ministry of Health.
(i) Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—During the year twenty cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum were notified. Nineteen of these cases recovered with unimpaired
vision and in the remaining case we have no reason to believe that the vision would
have been impaired had the child lived ; unfortunately it died from some
intercurrent disease.
(j) Illegitimate Children.—Special attention is paid by the Health Visitors to
all illegitimate children.
Twenty-six illegitimate children were born during the year, and six died.
The illegitimate mortality rate is more than four times the mortality rate for
legitimate children.