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In the Clementswood Ward there were 13 deaths.
7 died under 1 week.
*1 died at 3 months from gastro-enteritis following operation
for pyloric stenosis.
*1 died at 3 months from enteritis.
*1 died at 6 months from broncho-pneumonia, congenital morbus
cordis and patent foramen ovale.
*1 died at 6 months from meningococcal meningitis.
*1 died at 8 months from broncho-pneumonia.
*1 died at 10 months from gastro-enteritis and congenital
hydrocephalus.
In the Goodmayes Ward there were 10 deaths.
4 died under 1 week.
1 died at 1 week from congenital heart disease.
*1 died at 1 month from acute bronchitis and inherent lack of
vitality.
I died at 3 months from broncho-pneumonia.
1 died at 5 months from hydrocephalus and injury at birth.
1 died at 6 months from gastro-enteritis.
1 died at 7 months from diphtheria.
* These children had attended an Infant Welfare Centre.
It will be seen that of the 88 infants who died under one year
of age, only 19 had attended infant welfare centres, and in some
cases only one attendance was made. 51, however, of the deaths
occurred 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 12.0 per 1,000, as compared with 40.6 per 1,000
in those not attending an Ilford infant welfare centre.
It would be a fairer comparison to state that of the 37 children
who died between the age of one month and one year (all of whom
might have been in attendance at a welfare centre), only 19 had
attended an infant welfare centre, or, in other words, that 48 per
cent. of the deaths of children between one month and one year
of age occurred in children who had never attended an infant
welfare centre.
Neonatal Mortality.
The death-rate of infants under four weeks of age is known
as the Neonatal Mortality.
There were 51 deaths of infants under four weeks of age during
1935, and the rate for the year was 24.8 per 1,000 live births.