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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
Hillingdon 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hillingdon]
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16 Statistics, Infectious Diseases, Health Control Unit London {Heathrow) Airport
INFANT MORTALITY
The following table gives details of deaths of those infants who were resident in the Borough:
| Date of Death | Age | Sex | Cause of Death |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1.69 | 13 minutes | F | Prematurity |
| 18.8.69 | 14 minutes | M | Primary Apnoea |
| 24.3.69 | 1 hour | F | Compression of umbilical cord |
| 12.1.69 | 2 hours | F | Respiratory distress syndrome; extreme prematurity and birth asphyxia |
| 19.11.69 | 2 hours | M | Multiple congenital abnormalities |
| 5.1.69 | 3 hours | F | Extreme prematurity |
| 23.8.69 | 3 hours | F | Respiratory failure; asphyxial pulmonary haemorrhage; antepartum anoxia |
| 6.6.69 | 7 hours | M | Prematurity |
| 23.10.69 | 7 hours | M | Pulmonary atresia |
| 24.7.69 | 14 hours | M | Cerebral haemorrhage; respiratory distress syndrome; prematurity |
| 26.2.69 | 17 hours | F | Pulmonary haemorrhage |
| 16.1.69 | 18 hours | F | Bronchopneumonia; prematurity; blood groups incompatibility |
| 10.3.69 | 18 hours | F | Rhesus haemolytic disease |
| 24.3.69 | 21 hours | F | Severe birth asphyxia; prematurity |
| 25.6.69 | 22 hours | M | Pulmonary haemorrhage |
| 1.2.69 | 1 day | M | Respiratory failure due to tracheo-bronchial fistula (repaired) |
| 19.4.69 | 1 day | M | Extreme prematurity |
| 9.6.69 | 1 day | F | Birth asphyxia |
| 20.8.69 | 1 day | F | Extreme prematurity |
| 20.8.69 | 1 day | F | Extreme prematurity |
| 30.12.69 | 1 day | F | Prematurity |
| 21.2.69 | 2 days | F | Haemolytic disease of the newborn |
| 20.3.69 | 2 days | M | Respiratory distress syndrome; prematurity; caesarean section for fulminating pre-eclamptic toxaemia |
| 16.9.69 | 2 days | M | Atelectasis right lung |
| 20.9.69 | 2 days | F | Cardiac failure; hypoglycaemia; prematurity and maternal diabetes |
| 10.10.69 | 2 days | M | Bronchiolitis |
| 3.12.69 | 2 days | M | Respiratory distress; Hyaline membrane disease |
| 29.12.69 | 2 days | F | Respiratory distress; Hyaline membrane disease; prematurity |
| 11.7.69 | 3 days | M | Respiratory failure; prematurity |
| 21.8.69 | 3 days | M | Severe respiratory distress syndrome |
| 22.12.69 | 3 days | M | Ventricular trachycardia—cause unknown, possible myocarditis; prematurity |
| 30.9.69 | 4 days | M | Inadequate oxygenation; Hypoxic cerebral injury; aspiration |
| 17.12.69 | 4 days | M | Congenital heart disease (transposition of great vessels) |
| 15.3.69 | 1 week | F | Cerebral damage; anoxia at birth; pneumonia |
| 21.3.69 | 1 week | F | Bronchopneumonia; oesophageal atresia |
| 31.3.69 | 1 week | F | Meningomyelocele and hydrocephalus |
| 18.5.69 | 1 week | M | Haemorrhagic disease of the newborn |
| 6.1.69 | 2 weeks | M | Gastro-enteritis |
| 29.5.69 | 2 weeks | F | Bronchopneumonia |
| 7.3.69 | 3 weeks | F | Suppurative pyelonephritis |