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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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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Table V gives the causes of infant deaths under the age of one year. Graph B on page 11
shows the trend of the infant mortality rate since 1900. The corresponding rate for Middlesex
County was 18.7 and for England and Wales as a whole was 20.9.
Premature Infants
Ninety-eight premature infants were born alive during the year; 87 were born in hospital,
and of these, 76 were surviving at the end of one month; 11 were born at home or in a
nursing home and all of these were surviving at the end of one month. There were 13
premature stillbirths, all occurring in hospital.
| Year | Born at Home | Born in Hospital | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births | Died within one month | Stillbirths | Births | Died within one month | Stillbirths | |
| 1957 | 8 | 2 | - | 40 | 7 | 6 |
| 1958 | 8 | - | — | 49 | 8 | 3 |
| 1959 | 7 | — | - | 48 | 6 | 3 |
| 1960 | 15 | - | 1 | 45 | 7 | 7 |
| 1961 | 12 | 1 | — | 63 | 17 | 16 |
| 1962 | 6 | - | — | 83 | 8 | 10 |
| 1963 | 11 | — | — | 87 | 11 | 13 |
Maternal Morbidity
Two cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified direct to the Department during 1963; in
addition 48 cases were notified to other authorities.
The classification of puerperal pyrexia is "any febrile condition occurring in a woman
in whom a temperature of 100.4° Fahrenheit (38° Centigrade) or more has occurred within
fourteen days after childbirth or miscarriage."
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