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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
Hornchurch 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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Neonatal Mortality.
This term is applied to the deaths of children under one month.
There were 41 of such deaths yielding a rate of '27.3 per 1,000 births
for the year.
Prematurity was the cause of death in 18 cases and Congenital
Malformation in 6 cases.
Pneumonia was the cause of death in 3 of the 30 children who
were more than one month old.
The following table shows the deaths from stated causes at
various ages under one year of age:—