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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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TABLE 6 - INFANT DEATHS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE, 1956 & 1957
| Cause of Death | Total deaths | AGE AND SEX | Total under 1 year | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 week. | 1-2 weeks | 2-3 weeks | 3-4 weeks | 1-3 months | 3-6 months | 6-9 months | 9-12 months | |||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| Pneumonia | 1956 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 4 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 6 | 1 |
| 1957 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | |
| Premature Births | 1956 | 9 | 5 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 3 |
| 1957 | 6 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | |
| Congenital Malformations) Birth Injury, Infantile Diseases | 1956 | 12 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 8 | 4 |
| 1957 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Other Causes | 1956 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 |
| 1957 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | — | — | 7 | 3 | |
| TOTALS | 1956 | 32 | 10 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 23 | 9 |
| 1957 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 6 | |
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