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A total of 255 Walthamstow patients were unable to book
accommodation at Thorpe Coombe. If they were unable to make
their own alternative arrangements, bookings at other Maternity
Hospitals were made for them through Thorpe Coombe.
The grounds for admission are:—
(1) First confinements.
(2) Medical and obstetrical.
(3) Unsuitable home/social conditions.
VITAL STATISTICS
These are given in Section A of this Report. The birth rate
was below that for England and Wales. The infant mortality
rate was 29 against 32 for England and Wales, and the stillbirth
rate only 0.22 per 1,000 populations as against 0.39. This is a
new low record. The neo-natal mortality rate was 16.9 per 1,000
live births.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS
2,074 births (180 of which belonged to other areas) were
notified during the year under the Public Health Act, 1936.
Notifications were received as follows:—Doctors, 272; Midwives,
1,802.
Included in the above are 293 births which were notified
as having occurred outside the area.
Also included are 31 stillbirths, four of which belonged to
other areas. Of the total, three occurred outside the area.
STILLBIRTHS
Stillbirths were reduced to 27, yielding a rate per 1,000 population
of 0.22.
NEO NATAL MORTALITY
The neo-natal mortality is the number of infants dying under
one month per 1,000 live births. During 1949, 31 infants died
in the first four weeks of life, yielding a rate of 16.9.
INFANT MORTALITY