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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

West Ham 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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Table: The causes of deaths in infants under 1 year is as follows:-

The causes of deaths in infants under 1 year is as follows:-

Pneumonia7
Congenital Malformations7
Other Defined and Ill Defined Diseases35
Accidents1
Gastritis, Enteritis & Diarrhoea1
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Table: Although the full details from which the Registrar General compiles his statistics are not accessible to the Health Department, it would appear from such information as is available that the 35 infant deaths classified as "Other defined and Ill Defined Diseases" are made up as follows:-

Although the full details from which the Registrar General compiles his statistics are not accessible to the Health Department, it would appear from such information as is available that the 35 infant deaths classified as "Other defined and Ill Defined Diseases" are made up as follows:-

Prematurity24
Prematurity & Atelactasis4
Atelectasis2
Intracranial Birth Injury3
Cerebral Haemorrhage2
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Deaths of children aged 1-5 years.
There were 2 deaths in this group as compared with 10 in 1956. One was a 14 months
old child born with congenital hydrocephalus, and the other died at 3 years from a tumour of
the optic nerve.
Maternal Deaths.
There were 2 maternal deaths as compared with 3 in 1956. Both these deaths were
due to acute eclampsia, one of sudden onset in an 18 year old married woman who had been
attending a maternity hospital ante-natal clinic, the other, also of sudden onset, in a
16 year old unmarried girl who had no ante-natal care.
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