[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridge Borough.

Cambridge (England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1955

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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridge Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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!5S[ 0[[ I Net Deaths from Stated Causes at Various Ages under 1 Year. ■1 i i 1 Causes of Death. Under 1 week 1-2 weeks 2-3 weeks 3-4 weeks Total under 1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6-9 months 9-12 months ! Total deaths under 1 year j Neo-Natal Asphyxia 4 4 4 I Pneumonia j Congenital Heart ‘ Disease and I Malformations 7 2 — — 9 1 5 — 1 16 Premature Birth ... 2 — — — 2 — — — — 2 1 Other Causes 3 — — 1 4 2 2 — — 8 Totals 16 2 — 1 19 3 ' I < 7 — 1 30 Neo-natal Mortality,—The decline in infant deaths shows that they are preventable in great measure, but there is a “ hard core ” due to causes which are, probably, irremovable. Various kinds of congenital abnormality and prematurity of birth are examples of such causes of death. These causes operate very early in life, in the first week or fortnight as a rule. It will be seen from the preceding table that 19 out of. the 30 infant deaths occurred in the first month, and this may be expressed as a neo-natal mortality rate of 16.2 (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 live births).