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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
Brentford and Chiswick 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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The percentage of premature infants to total births (live and still) was
6.1. This is an improvement on the previous year when the percentage was 8.0.
The following figures show the percentages of premature infants to total
births (live and still) since 1951
1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
4.5 5.6 4. 9 6. 0 6.9 6. 4 8. 4 7.3 6. 6 8.1 8.0 6.1
Causes of infant deaths are shown in Table II on page 74.
MATERNAL MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY
Deaths from Puerperal Causes:-
Puerperal Sepsis Nil
Other Causes Nil
During the year, 72 cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified as compared
with 66 in 1961 One case occurred after home confinement, 71 were notified
from Chiswick Maternity Hospital 13 of the cases were residents of the Borough.,
The definition of puerperal pyrexia for notification purposes is "any
febrile condition occurring in a woman in whom a temperature of 100 4 degrees
Fahrenheit (38 degrees Centigrade) or more has occurred within fourteen days
after child-birth or miscarriage"
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