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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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DETAILS OF INFANT MORTALITY
The following table gives the cause of death during the first
month of life (Neo-natal mortality):-
(l) Complications of Labour -
Trauma at Birth
3
-
3
(2) Foetal States -
Congenital Malformities
4
Atelectasis
2
Haemorrhagic Disease of Newborn
4
-
10
(3)Prematurity
19
-
19
(4) Post-Natal Causes
4
-
4
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Percentage Deaths
under 1 year per
Total Infantile
Deaths
Deaths under 1 year
per 1,000 Births
1956 1955 1956 1955
Premature Births 31.3 33.3 5.83 6.89
Respiratory Diseases 23. 9 21.3 4.44 4.49
Infectious Diseases 1.5 0 2.9 0.28 0.60
Atelectasis, Debility
and Marasmus 3.0 5.8 0.56 l.20
Diseases of Digestion 6.0* 2.9 1.11 0.60
Injury at Birth and
Congenital 23.9 21.7 4.44 4.49
ΓΈ This death was due to polio-encephalitis
* These from Gastro-enteritis