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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 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The following table gives the cause of death during the first month of life:—
| (1) | Complications of Labour— Trauma at Birth | 5 | ||||
| — 5 | ||||||
| (2) | Foetal States— | |||||
| Congenital Heart Malformation | 4 | |||||
| Other Congenital Deformities, etc. | 8 | |||||
| Atelectasis, etc. | -18 | |||||
| —30 | ||||||
| (3) | Prematurity | 31 | ||||
| —31 | ||||||
| (4) | Post-Natal Causes | 12 | ||||
| —12 | ||||||
| 78 | ||||||
| Percentage Deaths per Total Infantile Deaths. | Deaths per 1,000 Births. | |||||
| 1942 | 1941 | 1942 | 1941 | |||
| Premature Births | 22.6 | 27.7 | 8.9 | 10.4 | ||
| Respiratory Diseases (Pneumonia, Bronchitis, etc.) | 20.4 | 34.4 | 8.1 | 12.1 | ||
| *Infectious Diseases (including Tuberculosis | 5.1 | 5.5 | 2.3 | 2.1 | ||
| Atelectasis, Debility and Marasmus | 15.3 | 4.4 | 6.0 | 1.7 | ||
| †Diseases of Digestion | 11.7 | 5.5 | 4.6 | 2.1 | ||
| Injury at Birth and Congenital | 15.3 | 12.2 | 6.0 | 4.6 | ||
| *Analysed these deaths were due to Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 1; Whooping Cough 2; and Tuberculosis 5. †These deaths were due to Diarrhoea 12; Peritonitis 1; Pharyngitis 1; Intestinal Obstruction 1; Perforation of Intestine 1. | ||||||
MIDWIFERY SERVICE.
Midwives Acts, 1902 to 1936.
Seventy-seven midwives notified the Local Supervising
Authority of their intention to practice within the Borough
during 1942. Fifteen ceased practising in the Borough; so that
sixty-two remained on the Register at the end of the year. All
these were trained and held the certificate of the Central Midwives
Board.
Midwives are compensated if they lose a case through
admission to a hospital or maternity home on the advice of a
doctor. The sum of £3 was paid out during the year.