London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Beddington and Wallington 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beddington and Wallington]
This page requires JavaScript
The following table gives the age and cause of death of each infant who died: —
| Age. | Cause of Death. |
|---|---|
| Few minutes | Difficult delivery (Forceps). |
| 10 hours | Birth injury. Shoulder presentation, version to breech. |
| 1 day | Prematurity |
| 1 week | |
| 2 weeks | |
| 2 weeks | |
| 3 weeks | Regurgitation of stomach contents into air passage. |
| 7 weeks | Asphixia, caused by pressure of bed-clothes in the cot. |
| 3 months | Congenital heart disease. |
| 5 months | Gastro-enteritis (infantile). |
| 5 months | Bronchial pneumonia. |
| 5 months | Inhalation of regurgitant food into lungs. |
Three or 25 per cent, of the deaths occurred in the first week of
life; 7 or 58.3 per cent, occurred in the first month; and 5 or 41.7
per cent, from the second to the twelfth month.
The infantile mortality in the different Wards is given below: —
Beddington : —
North 2
Central 3
South 1
Wallington: —
North 1
Central 5
South —
19