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INFANTILE MORTAILITY.
The number of deaths of children under 12 months was 26,
and the Infantile Mortality Rate 37 for 1,000 live births. This is
not so good as the rate for the previous year which was 31, the lowest
on record in Wood Green.
Of the total of 26 infantile deaths, no fewer than 14 occurred
in the first week of life, and 20 during the first month.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Four deaths occurred following miscarriage or childbirth.
One was the result of criminal abortion for which a conviction for
manslaughter was obtained. The others were the result of different
complications of childbirth. The Maternal Mortality Rate was
5.6 per 1,000 births, which compares very unfavourably with the
previous year when there were no maternal deaths.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
The number of live births registered as belonging to Wood
Green was 704. Of these the number registered as actually occurring
in the Borough was 318, and in 254 of these cases one or other of
the Council Midwives was in attendance at the confinement. It
will be observed that considerably more than half of the births
belonging to Wood Green took place in hospitals outside the Borough
or in reception areas to which mothers were sent under the Government
evacuation scheme.
CHILD WELFARE CENTRES.
The total attendances during the year were 12,931 compared
with 10,814 in the previous year. The attendances at the Centre
in Alexandra Park were 3,049 compared with 2,023 in 1941.
The number of children brought to the Centres was 1,691, of
whom 779 were infants under 1 year of age and 912 of from 1 to 5
years of age.