Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
This page requires JavaScript
TABLE V
INFANTS' DEATHS ACCORDING TO AGE AND CAUSE, 1956.
Cause of Death | Age | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Days | Months | |||||||||||||||||||||
Under 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7-13 | 14-20 | 21-28 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||
Pneumonia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 |
Birth injuries | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
Atelectasis & birth asphyxia | -- | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
Congenital malformations | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
Prematurity | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | |
Haemorrhagic disease | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Umbilical haemorrhage | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
TOTAL | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 22 |