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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

Barnes 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]

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Table: Table 5.—Infant Mortality during the Year 1951. Causes of death, at various ages, of infants under one year.

Table 5.—Infant Mortality during the Year 1951. Causes of death, at various ages, of infants under one year.

Prematurity1......1............1
Atelectasis-Birth Injury1......1............1
Asphyxia neonatorum associated with maternal
toxaemia1......1............1
Drowning in River Thames1......1..........1..
Intracranial Haemorrhage1......1............1
Kernicterus-Haemolytic disease of newborn1......1............1
Pulm. Oedema—Inhalation of Liquor Amnii—Premature twin1......1............1
Prematurity1......1..........1..
Asphyxia neonatorum—
Partial atelectasis1......1............1
Congenital deformity of head, i.e. Microcephaly and Cyclops1......1............1
Congenital oesophageal atresia with post operative complications..........1..........1
All causes10......101......1129

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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
Incidence of Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
Comparison between the incidence of certain of the notifiable
infectious diseases in Barnes, and in London and England and
Wales, is shown on next page.