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INFANT MORTALITY
There were twentyone deaths of children under one year of age.
All were legitimate.
Of the infant deaths sixteen occurred in hospital or public
institutions outside the district of Surbiton. The ages at death
were as follows:-
One at 5 hours; one at 6 hours; one at 10 hours; one at 12 hours;
one at 16 hours; one at 20 hours; four at 1 day; one at 2 days;
one at 6 days; one at 3 weeks; two at 1 month; one at 2 months;
two at 5 months; one at 7 months; one at 8 months and one at 10
months.
The causes and ages et death of the children were as follows:-
Pulmonary collapse 2 months
Prematurity 6 hours
Prematurity 2 days
Spontaneous neonatal suprenal haemorrhage 1 day
Acute intestinal obstruction 8 months
Prematurity 1 day
Prematurity 1 day
Haemorrhagic disease 3 weeks
Pulmonary atelectasis 10 hours
Hydrocephalus spinal meningocele 5 months
Prematurity 20 hours
Prematurity 5 hours
Asphyxia 1 month
Broncho-pneumonia 10 months
Acute gastro enteritis 5 months
Broncho pneumonia 7 months
Prematurity 16 hours
Broncho-pneumonia 1 month
Prematurity 12 hours
Tracheo oesophageal fistula 6 days
Prematurity 1 day
INFANT MORTALITY RATE.
The following table shows the death rate of infants under one
year of age per 1,000 live births.
YEAR
SURBITON
ENGLAND AND WALES
(Smaller towns)
1940
35.85
54.0
1941
54.20
56.0
1942
37.52
46.0
1943
32.56
46.0
1944
29.65
44.0
1945
34.28
46.0
1946
19.75
37.0
1947
24.41
36.0
1948
17.48
32.0
1949
23.54
30.0
As regards the vital statistics for 1949 there is a rise in the
infant mortality rate from 17.48 to 23.54
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