Annual report on the health of Gibraltar.

  • Gibraltar. Public Health Department.
Date:
[1960]
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: Annual report on the health of Gibraltar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    26/72 (page 10)
    births to non-resident aliens constituting a total of four hundred and twenty-three births or 16.03 per thousand total civil population. The distribution of births between hospitals, private practitioners and midwives was as follows:— Colonial Hospital . 385 Military Hospital . 20 Private Practitioners . 3 Midwives .i. 15 The preference for confinement in hospital which has been a feature since the repatriation of the population con¬ tinued. Still Births Three still births were registered during the year which amounts to 7.04 per thousand total live and still births. The corresponding figures for 1959 were 6 and 15.1. Illegitimate Births totalled three which represents .7 per cent of all births. These are the lowest figures since 1948. Illegitimate Births period 1948 60 Year 1948 1949 1950 h 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1953 1959 1960 Number 10 15 13 17 13 12 8 11 11 14 10 5 3 Rate per cent of all births 2.69 3.69 3.66 4.29 8.2 3.05 1.9 2.8 2.7 3.6 2.4 1.8 0.7 * Infant Mortality Six infants died before attaining the age of one year which constitutes an infant mortality rate of 14.81. All the infants concerned died within the first month from birth, and the neo-natal mortality rate proved therefore the same as the infant mortality rate. No less than five of these infants did not survive the first week of life which together with three still births represent a perinatal mortality of 18.77 per thousand total live and still births. Perinatal mortality is a term used to describe still births and deaths occurring during the first week of life, and is a measure of the loss of life due to circumstances before and during pregnancy and events during labour and delivery. *Vide Note on Page 12.