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Enfield 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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TABLE II.
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | ||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | ||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | |
| — | — _ | — _ | — _ | — _ | — | 1 | — | — _ | ||
| 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | |
| 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
Births in the year:—Legitimate: Live births, 1,309; Stillbirths,
24. Illegitimate : Live births, 47 ; Still-births, 2.
Deaths in the year :—Legitimate Infants, 32 ; Illegitimate, 1.
Of the 33 infants who died before reaching the age of 1 year,
23 died within the first 4 weeks of life, and of this number, 18
occurred in infants under 1 week. The increase in the number
of deaths of infants this year is due to an increase in deaths over
the age of 4 weeks, largely due to 5 deaths from Broncho-pneumonia
and Bronchitis.
The infant mortality rate for the Borough is 24.33 and this
figure is comparable with that for the rest of the country.