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The crude death-rate was 11.0. The Registrar-General has again supplied
an area comparability factor and that for East Ham is 1.04. The corrected
death rate is, therefore, the crude death rate (11.0) multiplied by 1.04 =
11.4.
For the period 1948 - 1952 the death rates for England and Wales and East
Ham are compared
1948 1949 1950 1951- 1952
England and Wales 10.8 11.7 11.6 12.5 11.3
East Ham 9.67 11.55 11.13 12.2 11.4
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Deaths of infants under one year numbered 37 ~ equivalent to an infant
mortality rate of 22.9 per 1,000 live births, the rate for the previous year
being 18.4.
The rate for England and Wales for 1952 was 27.6.
The number of deaths of illegitimate children under one year of age
was 1 out of a total of 51 illegitimate live births, giving a mortality
rate of 19.6 as compared with a figure of 33.5 per 1,000 illegitimate live
births for the year 1951.
The infantile mortality rates since 1948 are as follows
1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
England and Wales 34 32 29.8 29.6 27.6
East Ham 26 24 25 18.4 22.9
Illegitimate births and mortality rates for the Borough since 1948 are
tabulated below
1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
No. of illegitimate births 65 65 64 60 51
Mortality rate per 1,000 illegitimate
live births 15 30 62 33.3 19.6
NEO-NATAL MORTALITY
Children dying under the age of one month totalled 28, equal to a
neo-natal mortality rate of 17.4 per 1,000 live births,
These rates from 1948 - 1952 are compared below
1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
14.5 14.9 16.6 13.8 17.4
The causes of death of these children under one month of age were as follows
Cause No. of Deaths
Atalectasis 7
Premature Births 12
Congenital Malformations, Birth Injury, Infantile Diseases 4
Other causes 5
Total 28