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The present system of recording infantile mortality rates
is based on live births, whereas a truer state would be given if
based on pregnancy, and it is on this basis that I record the
following statistics. It is not possible, however, to include all
pregnancies, as no true record of miscarriages or abortions
exists.
1926- 1931- 1936-
1930 1935 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Confinements 3090 3383 4072 691 897 923 840
Stillbirths 76 99 127 20 26 22 20
Died—1st week 51 56 69 7 19 15 18
Died between 1st
week and 1 year 83 70 77 11 10 10 14
Survivors at year's
end 2880 3158 3779 653 842 876 788
Based on these figures, the true infantile mortality rate per
1,000 pregnancies (excluding miscarriages and abortions) and
compared with the official infantile mortality rate based on 1,000
live births is as follows :—
1926- 1931- 1936-
1930 1935 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Per 1,000 pregnancies 68 66 67 55 61 51 62
Per 1,000 live births 44 38 37 28 33 27 39
Rate per 1,000 pregnancies :
Stillbirth 25 2 9 31 29 29 24 24
Died in 1st week 16 16 17 10 21 16 21.5
Died 1st week to 1 year 27 21 19 16 11 11 I65
Based on these figures the true infantile mortality rate per
1,000 pregnancies (excluding miscarriages and abortions) com
pared with the official infantile mortality rate based on 1,000
live births, is shown in the graph on opposite page.
Maternal Mortality.
Again it is pleasing to report that for the second year
running we have no maternal deaths in Bromley mothers,
immediate previous years gave a maternal mortality rate of 3.3
per 1,000 live mothers,