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CAUSES OF INFANT DEATHS
Cause of Death
Age at Death
Total
under 4 weeks
4 weeks - 1 year
Enteritis and other
diarrhoeal diseases
-
1
1
Meningitis
1
1
2
Pneumonia
1
2
3
Other diseases of
respiratory system
1
7
8
Congenital Anomalies
10
3
13
Birth Injury, Difficult
labour etc.
9
-
9
Other causes of perinatal
mortality
10
-
10
32
14
46
PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DEATH (All Ages)
Diseases of heart and circulatory system 644
Cancer and other malignant diseases 482
Pneumonia, bronchitis and other respiratory diseases 268
Cerebrovasculor disease and other diseases of the
brain and nervous system. 245
I give below for purpose of comparison the birth and death rates
of Barking, Greater London and England and Wales for 1971.
Live births (per 1,000 population
Barking
14.13
Greater
London
15.2
England
&. Wales
16.0
Stillbirths (per 1,000 live and stillbirths)
12.27
11.7
12.0
Infant Mortality (per 1,000 live births)
21.16
17.4
18.0
Deaths (per 1,000 population)
12.09
11.5
11.6
15