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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
(Provisional)
Live birth-rate per 1,000 population 11.1 15.0
Still birth-rate per 1,000 total births 17.9 23.1
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live.
births 20.5 24.9
Extracts from vital statistics are given more fully in Section
"A" of this Report.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS
1,842 births (449 of which belonged to other Areas) were
notified during the year under the Public Health Act, 1936.
Notifications were received as follows: Doctors 307; Midwives
1,515; Others 20.
Also included are 34 stillbirths, 10 of which belonged to other
areas. Of the total, 10 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 1955, 23 infants died in
the first four weeks of life, a rate of 17.5.

The death rates of infants under one year of age per 1,000
live births in Walthamstow when calculated on the totals given by
the Registrar General are therefore :—
Legitimate, 19.0; Illegitimate, 1.5; Total, 20.5