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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

East Ham 1913

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

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Table: The following table gives the rate of infantile mortality and other allied statistics for each Ward in the Borough for 1913:—

The following table gives the rate of infantile mortality and other allied statistics for each Ward in the Borough for 1913:—

Borough.Beckton & North W'lwich.Central East.Central West.Manor Park.Plashet East.Plashet West.
Population142,46716,04825,23826,80729,60219,54525,167
Births3,596530637709744441535
Birth-rale25233025226425122521 2
Deaths1,437185212275317167281
Death-rate1011158-410210-78-5111
Deaths under 1 year220393537582928
Infant Mortality Rate63735552786652
Death - rate per 1,000 births from Diarrheal diseases14192815162
Death - rate per 1,000 births from "Wasting diseases "31342020434528

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It is pleasing to record a still further decline in the rate ol
Infantile Mortality.
The rate is the lowest yet recorded, and is one of the lowest
in the United Kingdom.
The rate has been gradually reduced during the past few
years, and as the summer of 1913 was dry (but not unusually hot'
we might take some credit in connection with the work carried on
by means of the Infant Consultation in this reduction of Infantile
Mortality.
The Infant Consultations, which are conducted at the old
Public Offices, Wakefield Street, continue to attract mothers with
their infants.
Many of the babies brought to the Clinic were wasting and
badly nourished, owing to insufficient knowledge of the mother on
the care and feeding of her baby. A large number uld probably
have died had not the advice and instruction obtaine at the Clinic