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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
Havering 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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At Risk Register
At the end of the year 473 children were being carefully
followed up, as they were considered to be "at risk" due to
various hereditary, ante-natal or post-natal factors. As soon as
it has been ascertained that a child is normal and making proper
progress, the need for special observation ceases to exist, and
the child's name is removed from the "At Risk Register". All
premature infants are included on the Register and Table 9 below
gives details of the number of Havering infants regarded as
premature on the basis of a birth weight of 5'/2lbs or less.
TABLE 9
| Weight at birth | Premature live births | Pre* mature stillbirths | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born In hospital | Born at home or in a nursing home | |||||||||||||
| Nursed, entirely at home or in a nursing home | Transferred to hospital on or before 28th dey | |||||||||||||
| Total births | Died | Total births | Died | Total births | Died | Born | ||||||||
| within 24 hour* of birth | in 1 and under 7 days | in 7 and under 28 days | within 24 hours tyi birth | in 1 and under 7 days | in 7 and under 2 8 days | wMhin 24 hours j of birth | in 1 and under 7 days | in 7 and under 2 8 days | In hospital | at home | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ! 2 | 13 | 14 | |
| 1. 21b. 3oz. or less | 12 | 4 | 6 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| 2. Over 21b. 3oz. up to and in eluding 3lb. 4oz. | 17 | 3 | 5 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 2 | _ | _ | _ | 7 | _ |
| 3. Over 31b. 4oz. up to and including 41b. 6oz. | 31 | 2 | 5 | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | 2 | _ | _ | _ | 8 | _ |
| 4. Over 41b. 6oz. up to and in eluding 41b. 15oz. | 47 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | _ | _ | _ | 3 | _ | 1 | _ | 4 | _ |
| 3. Over 41b. 15oz. up to and in-. eluding Sib. 8oz. | 116 | 1 | _ | 1 | 15 | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 7 | 2 |
| 6. TOTAL | 223 | 13 | 17 | 2 | 19 | 1 | _ | _ | 7 | _ | 1 | 34 | 2 | |