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Enfield 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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55
INFANT MORTALITY.
On pages 11 & 13 of this report full details of deaths of infants
under the age of one year will be found, and a further reference
on the subject will be found under the heading Zymotic Deathrate
on pages 38 and 39.
BIRTHS.
The actual number of births registered in the District was as
follows :-
Boys. Girls. Total.
523 523 1046
including 23 illegitimate births, i.e., 2.19 per cent, of the total.
In addition, 8 male (including illegitimate) and 11 female stillbirths
were registered.

Table: The corrected birth-rates for both sexes, live and still-births, which takes into consideration those born outside the District and those in the District not rightly recorded to the District, and also the corrected birth-rates for the last 5 years, are :-

The corrected birth-rates for both sexes, live and still-births, which takes into consideration those born outside the District and those in the District not rightly recorded to the District, and also the corrected birth-rates for the last 5 years, are :-

Year.Boys.Girls.Total.Birth-rate per 1,000 Population.Illegitimate Birth-rate per 1,000 Population.
19335375201,05714.72.50
19345715551,12615.08.44
19356286391,26716.46.51
19367096941,40317.12.50
19378097581,56717.97.50

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INFANTILE DEATHS.
Reference to Table 2 on page 11 shews that of the 67 deaths of
children who died under one year of age, 18 occurred during the
first week of life, 5 during the 2nd week, 4 during the 3rd week, and
one during the 4th week; 28 in the first four weeks of life.
During 1936, when 86 children died under the age of one year,
the number who died during the first 4 weeks of life was 47. The
biggest reduction, however, is that during the first week of life, for
in 1936, 34 children died, whereas in 1937, the figure was 18. It will
be seen, therefore, that the reduction in the number of deaths, and
therefore in the infant mortality rate from 62.77 in 1936 to 43.99 in