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Area
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
ENGLAND
29.4
27.2
26.5
25.1
24.5
Areas with
the lowest
rates
Crovdon
CB 19.1
Croydon
CB 19.6
Harrow
UD 16.9
Harrow
UD 16.8
Harrow
MB 17.0
Bristol
CB 20.4
Bristol
CB 21 .5
Croydon
CB 20.5
Croydon
CB 19.5
Bristol
CB 191
Harrow
UD 21 .8
Harrow
UD 21 .9
Bristol
CB 21 .8
Bristol
CB 20.7
Crovdon
CB 20.5
Area
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
ENGLAND
23.3
22.8
22.3
22.0
21.6
Plymouth
CB 17.5
Harrow
MB 14.0
Harrow
MB 17.0
Harrow
MB 15.2
Portsmouth
CB 15.7
Areas with
the lowest
rates
Croydon
CB 18.6
Leicester
CB 17.7
Croydon
CB 17.9
Sheffield
CB 17.0
Harrow
MB 18.5
Bristol
CB 19.3
Croydon
CB 18.0
Plymouth
CB 20.0
Bristol
CB 19.6
Bristol
CB 19.8
Harrow appeared in each year but one, being the only District
mentioned this number of times.
Stillbirths.
46 stillbirths were registered last year. This was a rate per thousand
population of 0.22, and a rate per thousand live and stillbirths of 14.7.
The rate per thousand total births for the country as a whole was 18.7.
Of the fifty-three stillbirths about which particulars are known, nine
were to mothers confined at home. In three there were developmental
abnormalities. Four births were premature; in one of these, the mother
had toxaemia and in another placental heamorrhage. Of the forty-four
stillbirths to mothers confined in hospital, in nine there were malformations.
Labour was premature in eighteen instances; in six tor no
apparent cause; in three because of placenta praevia; two through toxaemia;
in two the mother had diabetes and in another four she was ill.
There was difficulty in labour in seven. In eight instances there was no
apparent reason for the death of the foetus.
Peri-natal Mortality.
Very much the same conditions are responsible for many of the stillbirths
and for the deaths of infants in their first week, the early neo-natal
period. So much is this the case that it is almost a matter of chance as to