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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
East Ham 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 5.
18a
Infant Deaths Under One Year of Age, 1936.
| CAUSE OF DEATH. | Total | Ages and Sex | Total under 1 year | Wards | Deaths in Institutions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 week | 1-2 weeks | 2-3 weeks | 3-4 weeks | 1-3 months | 3-6 months | 6-9 months | 9-12 months | Manor Park | Little Ilford | Wood- grange | Plashet | Kensington | Castle | Central | Wall End | Great- field | South | |||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||||||||||||
| Measles | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Influenza | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| syphilis | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Heart Disease | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bronchitis | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | |
| Diarrhoea, etc. | 18 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 5 | 1 | 17 | |
| Congenital Debility and Malformations, Premature Births | 36 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 7 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 22 | |
| Other defined causes | 9 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 7 |
| All Causes | 97 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 57 | 40 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 63 |
| Infantile Mortality Rates per 1,000 live births | 50 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 70 | 46 | 38 | 56 | 32 32 | 23 23 | 56 | 64 | 75 | 40 | - | |
It will be seen that this table has been extended at the request of the Ministry of Health to show the allocation of infant deaths
to wards and ward infantile mortality rates.