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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

Hackney 1939

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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14
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of 108 children under the age of twelve months were
allocated to Hackney by the Registrar-General during 1939. This
number of deaths gives an infantile mortality rate of 40.90 per
1,000 live births, the rate for England and Wales being 50 and for
London 40.

Table: The causes of death are set out in the following table:—

The causes of death are set out in the following table:—

Cause of Death.Under 24 hrs.1 day to 1 week.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 4 weeks.1 -3 months.3-6 months.6-9 months.9-12 months.Total
Influenza................1..1
Oerebro Spinal Fever..............1....1
Whooping Cough............311..5
Diphtheria............1......1
Pulmonary Tuberculosis..................11
Tuberculous Meningitis..................11
Meningitis............1......1
Convulsions................1..1
Bronchitis............131..5
Pneumonia..11....2242111
Diarrhoea............553114
Suffocation (overlying)..1......1........1
Injury at Birth22..1..5........5
Atelectasis1..1....2........2
Congenital defects6241..1361....20
Premature Birth151161134..11..36
Other causes11......2........2
Totals25181231591916104108

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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
During 1939 there were 2 deaths of Hackney women resulting
from Puerperal Sepsis and 2 from other causes directly connected
with childbirth. These deaths represent a death rate of 1.46 per
1,000 total births as compared with a rate for England and Wales
of 2.82.
The services of Consultants were used in four cases of difficult
confinement during the year and there was one case in which the use
of the County Council's emergency obstetric unit was necessary.