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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
Croydon 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The following table gives the causes of death during the first month of life:-
| 1. COMPLICATIONS OF LABOUR. | ||||
| Trauma at Birth | 4 | |||
| 4 | ||||
| II.FOETAL STATES. | ||||
| Congenital Heart Malformation | 10 | |||
| Other Congenital Deformities | 3 | |||
| atelectasis etc., | 19 | |||
| 32 | ||||
| III. PREMATURITY | 28 | |||
| 28 | ||||
| IV. POST-NATAL CAUSES | 13 | |||
| 13 | ||||
| 77 | ||||
| percentage Deaths per total Infantile Deaths. | Deaths per 1,000 Births. | |||
| 1038. | 1939 | 1938 | 1939 | |
| Premature Births | 17.8 | 23.1 | 7.2 | 9.0 |
| Respiratory Diseases (Pneumonia and Bronchitis) | 13.15 | 15.4 | 5.4 | 6.0 |
| Infectious Diseases (inc.Tuberculosis) Atelectasis, Debility | 10.4 | 1.5 | 4.2 | 0.6 |
| and Marasmus | 13.3 | 16.2 | 5.4 | 6.6 |
| Diseases of Digestion | 10.3 | 17.7 | 7.8 | 6.9 |
| Accidental and Congenital | 15.6 1 | 16.2 | 6.3 | 6.3 |
ж Analysed these deaths were due to Whooping Cough 1; Cerebro-Spinal
Fever 1;
ł .Analysed these deaths were due to Diarrhoea 20; Intussusception 1;
Pharyngeal abscess 1; and Toxic Jaundice 1.
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