[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Hartlepool Borough.

  • Hartlepool (England). Borough Council. nb2004301809.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Hartlepool Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -11- 1936 ... 2.4 1937 1938..... ...2,6.5.. 1939 c a o — 1940 ... .1.9.41 ....... 1942 STATISTICAL RETURNS. Number of Legitimate Births ... Number of Illegitimate Births ... Number of Stillbirths .... Birth Rate per 1,000 population.. Number of Deaths of Infants under 1 Legitimate. ... ... Illegitimate. .... • Infantile Mortality Rato per 1 INFANTILE MORTALITY RATES. year :- • « » • • o • • * 0 9 0 ,000 live births■- 275 6 12 18. S' 39 _1 40 ■142.3 Years. Hartlepoole •■ England & Wales, 1933 93.6 64 1934 67.2 59 1935 36.8 57 “19o6 * “'6074 * “ - 5Cr 1937 67.4 58 1938 55.2 63 . 1939 f 75. • 50 : 1940 ' 73.2 55 1941- •- . ■■• 68 . Not available. 1942 . 142.3 Not available. CHILD WELFARE CENTRE. Fork in the Child Welfare Clinics progressed satisfactorily, during the year the total number of attendances being 3,849 as compared with 2,421 in 1941#. The following tables show the amount of work done in connection with Maternity and Child Welfare work during the year:- Total Attendances made during the year ... ... ... 3,849 1. By children under 1 year of age 2,566 2. By children between the ages of 1 & 5 years. 1,283 Average number of children attending per session ... 76 Total number of children who made first attendances... 412 1. Children under ‘1 year of age ... 319 2. Children between the ages of 1 & 5 years ... 93 Number of children who received Artificial Sunlight treatment. 1. Children under 1 year of age 8