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Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital 1161
Other Hospitals and Maternity Homes. 384
Total in Hospital, etc. 1545
At home 376
Total Confinements 1921
A total of 128 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 to Thorpe Coombe were:—
(1) First Confinements.
(2) Medical and Obstetrical.
(3) Unsuitable home/social conditions.
VITAL STATISTICS
Walthamstow England & Wales
Live birth-rate per 1,000 population 12.6 15.3
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 population 0.24 0.35
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live-
births 24.5 27.6
Extracts from vital statistics are given more fully in Section
"A" of this Report.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS
1,942 births (366 of which belonged to other areas) were notified
during the year under the Public Health Act, 1936.
Notifications were received as follows:— Doctors, 311; Midwives,
1,603; others, 28.
Included in the above are 366 births which were notified as
having occurred outside the Borough.
Also included are 40 stillbirths, four of which belonged to
other areas. Of the total, nine occurred outside the Borough.
NEO-NATAL MORTALITY
The neo-natal mortality is the number of infants dying under
one month per 1,000 live births. During 1952, 23 infants died in
the first four weeks of life, a rate of 15.2.