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In the Clements wood Ward there were 12 infant deaths.
4 died within 24 hours.
1 died at 1 day from premature birth.
1 died at 2 days from premature birth.
1 died at 16 days from whooping cough and bronchitis.
*1 died at 2 months from pyloric stenosis and wasting.
1 died at 5 months from asthma and broncho-pneumonia.
*1 died at 6 months from acute bronchitis.
1 died at 10 months from broncho-pneumonia.
1 died at 11 months from tubercular meningitis.
* These children had attended an infant welfare centre.
In the South Hainault Ward there were 15 infant deaths.
2 died shortly after birth.
1 died at 11 days from weakness and jaundice.
1 died at 13 days from acute enteritis and acute pneumonia.
1 died at 18 days from congenital depression on the left
side of skull and convulsions.
1 died at 3 weeks from meningeal haemorrhage due to
injuries received during difficult labour accidentally.
1 died at 1 month from debility and marasmus.
1 died at 2 months from congenital malformation of heart
and bronchitis.
1 died at 3 months from acute nephritis.
*1 died at 3 months from broncho-pneumonia and cardiac
failure.
1 died at 5 months from infective enteritis.
1 died at 5 months from broncho-pneumonia and cardiac
failure.
1 died at 6 months from gastro-enteritis (in Romford
Infirmary).
1 died at 6 months from broncho-pneumonia.
*1 died at 7 months from gastro-enteritis and toxæmia.
* The first of these two children had attended an infant
welfare centre in this district, but the latter attended
a Romford welfare centre only.
It will be seen that of the 78 infants who died under 1 year
of age, only 16 had attended infant welfare centres, and of
these 2 attended Centres in other districts only, while in some
cases only one attendance was made. Thirty-seven, however, of
the deaths occurred in infants in the first month of life, and
these infants would naturally not have been brought to a Centre.
The mortality of infants under one year attending Ilford
infant welfare centres was 29.5 per 1,000, as compared with
56'3 per 1,000 in those not attending a welfare centre (excluding
the deaths of those children dying in the Girls' Village Homes).