[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Whitehaven Borough.

  • Whitehaven (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Whitehaven Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MATERNAL MORTALITY. No maternal Death took place within the year. The rate per 1,000 total births was, therefore, nil as com¬ pared with the following rates for the whole country :— Rate per England No. of 1,000 and Deaths. Total Births. Wales. From Sepsis nil nil 0.26 From other causes nil nil 0.91 Total nil nil 1.17 Notifications of Puerperal Pyrexia - No. of Notifications. *8 14.2 7.16 * Includes one person not resident in the Borough, so that the nett rate to correspond with 1,000 births was 12.4. INFANTILE DEATHS. ©• Death Rate of Infants under one year of age per thousand live births :— Legitimate 61, Illegitimate Nil Total 58 England and Wales . 41 126 Great Towns. 47 148 Smaller Towns . 36 London . 37 County of Cumberland . 42 The number of deaths of children under one year of age during 1947 was 32, viz., 20 males and 12 females, which gives an Infantile Mortality Rate of 58 per 1,000 registered live births. This rate shows an increase of 13 compared with that for the previous year. The chief causes of the Infantile Deaths were Prematurity and Congenital Defects, which accounted for 13 of the 32 deaths, and Bronchitis and Pneumonia which accounted for 12. 16 or 50 per cent, of the deaths occured in the neo-natal period, that is within the first month of life. The Mortality Rates for Male and Female Infants respectively were 69 and 46.