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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 1941

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of 73 children under the age of twelve months were
allocated to Hackney by the Registrar-General during 1941. This
number of deaths gives an infantile mortality rate of 50.20 per
1,000 live births, the rate for England and Wales being 59 and for
London 68.

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
Asphyxia........11........1
Atelectasis21......3........3
Bronchitis..1......1..33..7
Cerebro-spinal fever..............1....1
Congenital defects2511..9..11112
Diarrhoea11341..9
Marasmus............1..1..2
Pneumonia..1....12331110
Prematurity8103....21........21
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary....................
,, Non-Pulmonary................1..1
War operations................11
Whooping cough................1..1
Other causes..11....21..1..4
Totals12195134081210373

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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
During 1941 there was 1 death from Puerperal Sepsis and 3
from other causes directly connected with childbirth. These deaths
represent a death-rate of 2.65 per 1,000 total births as compared
with a rate for England and Wales of 2.23.