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Croydon 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The Registrar General's figures for deaths directly due to pregnancy
was as follows:—
Total deaths allocated to Borough of Croydon, 8; maternal
mortality 2.36 per 1,000 births; in the previous paragraph the
deaths are given as 10. This includes 2 deaths which the Registrar
General did not include as deaths directly due to pregnancy, but
which in the light of local knowledge have been included in my
report.
| Puerperal Toxaemias. | Haemorrhages. | Other Causes. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEAR. | BIRTHS. | Puerperal Infection. | Eclampsia. | Hyperemesis. | Ectopic Gestation. | Placenta Praevia. | Post-partum Haemorrhage. | Pulmonary Embolism. | Caesarean Section. | Shock. | Heart Disease. Syncope. | Renal Trouble. | Other Causes. | TOTAL. | *Maternal Mortality. | Infant Mortality. |
| 1919 | 2965 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 1920 | 4351 | |||||||||||||||
| 1911 | 3631 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 1922 | 3505 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| 1923 | 3373 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 1921 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1925 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| 1926 | 3477 | |||||||||||||||
| 1927 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| 1928 | 3374 | |||||||||||||||
| 1929 | 3399 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 1930 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 1931 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| 1932 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1933 | 3147 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 1934 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 1935 | 7 | |||||||||||||||
| 89 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
*It has recently become the practice to give the maternal death rate
live1,000 live and still births. The above table gives the rate per 1,000
live births. Below are given the rates per 1,000 total births since 1931.