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Ealing 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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Deaths at various Ages under One Year of Age, 1936.

Cause of DeathUnder 1 week1—2 weeks2—3 weeks3—4 weeksTotal under 4 weeks4 weeks and under 3 months3 months and under 6 months6 months and under 9 months9 months and under 12 monthsTotal deaths under 1 year
All Causes4841558111689102
Measles
Meningitis
Convulsions
Bronchitis21115
Pneumonia433515
Inflammation of the Stomach
D iarrhoea and Enteritis22217
Congenital Malformations5117310
Congenital Debility4415
Premature Birth283133535
Injury at Birth555
Other Diseases Peculiar to Early Infancy4—_4__4
Inattention at Birth
Other Causes21392216

Stillbirths.—The number of stillbirths assigned to the
Borough was 71, this figure being a little below the total of 74
recorded in the previous year.
Maternal Mortality.—The following table shows the
maternal death-rates for Ealing and for England and Wales in
recent years. In the report for last year it had to be recorded
that the maternal death-rate for 1935 was the highest rate recorded
in the Borough since 1911. In the year under review, however,
it is pleasing to be able to record that the maternal death-rate
is the lowest rate recorded since 1917, the total of two maternal
deaths which occurred being equivalent to a death-rate of 0.93
per thousand births. The low maternal death-rate for 1936
balances the high rate for 1935, the rate for the two years being
3.16, a very favourable rate compared with previous years and
distinctly lower than the rates for England and Wales in each of
the last five years.