Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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Table III
Deaths in wards
Ward | Male | Female | Total |
---|---|---|---|
Waxlow Manor | 41 | 35 | 76 |
Northcote | 40 | 33 | 73 |
Hambrough | 39 | 28 | 67 |
Dormers Wells | 115 | 162 | 277 |
Glebe | 57 | 52 | 109 |
Norwood Green | 39 | 35 | 74 |
Total | 331 | 345 | 676 |
Table IV
Causes of death in the stillborn
Accidental haemorrhage | 5 |
Compression umbilical cord | 1 |
Congenital abnormalities | 5 |
Difficult labour—with prolapse of arm | 1 |
—with disproportion | 1 |
Macerated foetus | 3 |
Placenta praevia | 1 |
Pre-eclamptic toxaemia | 3 |
Rhesus incompatability | 1 |
Unknown cause | 2 |
Total | 23 |
Table V
Causes of Deaths Under One Year of Age
Certified Causes of Death | Under 1 week | 1-2 weeks | 2-3 weeks | 3-4 weeks | Total under 4 weeks | 1-3 months | 3-6 months | 6-9 months | 9-12 months | Total under 1 year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abortion | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Birth injury | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 |
Congenital malformation and congenital heart disease | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 8 |
Electrocuted—home accident | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Jaundice | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Otitis media | - | - | — | - | — | 1 | - | — | - | 1 |
Peritonitis | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Prematurity | 5 | — | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | — | 6 | |
Total | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 22 |