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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
Enfield 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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TABLE II.
Infant Mortality
Net Deaths from stated causes at various Ages under One Year of Age.
| Causes of Death. | Under 1 week. | 1 to 2 weeks. | 2 to 3 weeks. | 3 to 4 weeks. | Total under 4 weeks. | 4 weeks and under 3 months. | 3 months and under 6 months. | 6 months and under 9 months. | 9 months and under 12 months. | Total Deaths under One Year of Age. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | ||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | ||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| - | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - |
Net Births in the year:—Legitimate : Live births, 1,397 ; Stillbirths,
23. illegitimate : Live births, 41 ; Still-births, 1.
Net Deaths in the year Legitimate Infants, 27 ; Illegitimate, 1.
It will be seen from Table II that of the 28 infants who died
before attaining the age of 1 year, 20 died within the first four
weeks of life, and of this number 16 deaths occurred in infants
under 1 week.
The infant mortality rate for the District is 19.47 and this
figure compares most favourably with the rest of the country.