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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
Coulsdon and Purley 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon]
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I nfantile M ortality during the Y ear 1937.
| Under 1 week. | 1-2 weeks. | 2-3 weeks. | 3-4 weeks. | Total under 4 weeks. | 4 weeks and under 3 months. | 3 months and under 6 months. | 6 months and under 9 months. | 9 months and under 12 months. | Total Deaths under 1 yr. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 |
| Bronchitis | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pneumonia (all forms) | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 |
| Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Suffocation (overlying, etc.) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Want of attention at birth | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Birth injury | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Atelectasis | 3 | - | -- | — | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | |
| Congenital malformation | - | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Premature Birth Atrophy, debility | 4 | — | — | - | 4 | — | — | - | - | 4 |
| and marasmus | 1 | — | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 |
| Totals | 10 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 24 |
The neo-natal mortality rate (i.e., deaths within the first month
per thousand live births) was thus 25, as compared with 23 last year.
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