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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Southall 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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Infant Mortality Rate from 1900 to 1952
Premature Infants
Forty premature infants were born during the year, all of them in hospital; of these
35 survived to the end of one month. The classification of premature infant is given to
a child born prematurely, or which weighs less than 5½ lbs. at birth.
Maternal Morbidity
During the year seven cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified. There were no
maternal deaths and no deaths associated with abortion.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES
During 1952 the only new legislation with regard to infectious disease consisted of a
set of tuberculosis regulations, entitled the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1952.
These were merely for the purpose of bringing the system of notification into line with the
structure of the National Health Service Act.
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