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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
Surbiton 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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INFANT MORTALITY.
There were 39 deaths of children under 1 year of age,
which is an increase of 11 compared with the number for the previous
year. 38 were legitimate and 1 illegitimate.
Of the infant deaths, 21 occurred in hospitals or public
institutions outside the district of Surbiton. The ages at death
were as follows:-
One at 6 hours, 7 hours, 9 hours, 10 hours, 11 hours, 12
hours, 16 hours, two weeks, three months, six months, eight months,
ten months; two at one day, five days, one month, two months, four
months, five months, eleven months; three at three weeks; four at
one week; six at two days.
The causes and ages at death of the children were as
follows:-
| Prematurity | 10 | hours |
| Prematurity | 2 | days |
| Prematur ity | 12 | hours |
| Cerebral Haemorrhage due to birth injury | 5 | days |
| Malnutrition at birth | 1 | week |
| Asphyxia caused by the accidental pressure of bed clothes | 2 | months |
| Cerebral Haemorrhage - Birth injury | 2 | days |
| Prematurity | 16 | hours |
| Broncho-Pneumonia, Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis | 1 | week |
| Prematurity | 1 | week |
| Prematurlty and atelectasis | 2 | days |
| Convulsions, prematurity | 3 | weeks |
| Inanition. Prematurity. Maternal Toxaemia | 7 | hours |
| Portal Pyaemia following umbilical sepsis | 3 | weeks |
| Pulmonary congestion. Bronchitis | 11 | months |
| Enteritis | 4 | months |
| Asphyxia | 2 | months |
| Congenital foetal ascites | 2 | weeks |
| Broncho-Pneumonia. Gastric enteritis | 11 | months |
| Cerebral Haemorrhage | 1 | day |
| Prematurity | 3 | weeks |
| Prematurity | 1 | day |
| Gastro-enteritis. Infantile eczema | 5 | months |
| Gas t r o—e nte r it is | 1 | month |
| Broncho—Pneumonla | 4 | months |
| Prematurity | 9 | hours |
| Diarrhoea and enteritis | 6 | months |
| Miliary Tuberculosis | 10 | months |
| Syncope, Convulsions. Diarrhoea and vomiting | 5 | months |
| Prematurity | 1 | week |
| Prematurity | 2 | days |
| Spina-bifida. Hydrocephalus | 5 | days |
| Cerebral Haemorrhage | 11 | hours |
| Volvulus of small intestine | 2 | days |
| Prematurity | 1 | month |
| Cardio respiratory failure | 2 | days |
| Broncho—Pneumonia | 3 | months |
| Prematurity | 6 | hours |
| Broncho-Pneumonia | 8 | months |
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