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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 1957
[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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes— | Certified | 9 | 1 | - | - | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 15 |
| Uncertified | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Atelectasis | 3 | - | — | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | |
| Pneumonia and Bronchitis | 1 | - | — | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | — | 3 | |
| Congenital Malformations | 3 | - | — | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | — | 6 | ||
| Prematurity | 1 | 1 | — | - | 2 | - | — | — | — | 2 | |
| Cerebral haemorrhage | 1 | - | — | - | 1 | - | - | — | — | 1 | |
| Totals | 9 | 1 | - | — | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 15 | |
Births in the year:—Legitimate: Live births, 1,398; Stillbirths,
29. Illegitimate: Live births, 63; Still-births, 2.
Deaths in the year:—Legitimate Infants, 15; Illegitimate, —.
Of the 15 infants who died before reaching the age of 1 year,
10 died within the first 4 weeks of life, and of this number, 9
occurred in infants under 1 week.
The infant mortality rate for the Borough is 10.26 and this
figure is a very encouraging one.
BIRTHS
The corrected birth rates for both sexes, live and still births,
which takes into consideration those born outside the Borough and
those in the Borough not rightly recorded to the Borough, and also
the corrected birth rates for the last five years are:—