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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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13.
Study of these tables of mortality Tor 1956 and 1957 show that in East Ham the deaths of
infants under one year of age declined during these years to give the present figure (1957) of
15.?. per 1,000 live births, the lowest infant mortality rate in the country.
This may reflect in some measure the advance in the field of child nurture in the community
and the value of the Health Visiting and Paedlatrlc Services in our borough. The general practitioners
also increasingly are sharing the responsibility for infant welfare with the Local
Authority's staff.