[Report 1930] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1930
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Credit: [Report 1930] / Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    11/152 (page 7)
    WOMEN DYING IN, OR IN CONSEQUENCE OF, CHILD BIRTH.— The number of deaths registered during the year from accidents and diseases of pregnancy and parturition was 34, 14 from Puerperal Fever and 20 from other causes associated with childbirth. This is equal to a rate of 5 36 per 1,000 live births. Although this rate is lower than that of last year, when it was 7 47, and also lower than it has been in the County for several years, it is still con- siderably higher than the figure for England and Wales, which in 1929, was 4-3 per 1,000 women giving birth to live children. This matter has been fully commented upon in the County Maternity and Child Welfare Report which has already been published and presented to the Council. INFANTILE MORTALITY.—The total number of deaths under one year of age throughout the Administrative County was 412—375 in the Urban Districts and 37 in the Rural Districts. The rate per 1,000 births was 64 9, a decrease of 2'8 upon the figure for 1919, which was 67 7. The figure for the year 1930, is the lowest on record for the County, the previous lowest being 66'1 for the year 1926. In the Urban Districts the rate was 67'9 per 1,000 births, and in the Rural Districts 44'9 per 1,000 births. In 1929, the Infantile Mortality rate was 677; in 1928, 72-29; in 1927, 87 3; in 1926, 66-1; in 1925, 83-8; in 1924, 75-6; in 1923, 73 0; in 1922, 83 4; in 1921, 91-5; in 1920, 87-9; in 1919, 88-0; in 1918, 97-6; in 1917, 84-3; in 1916, 88 4; in 1915,. 128-5; in 1914, 106; in 1913, 115; in 1912, 105; in 1911, 149; in 1910, 112; in 1909, 104; in 1908, 142; per 1,000 births. The rate for England and Wales was 60. The average Infantile Mortality rate for the 25 years, 1891 — 1915, was 137 4. The average rate for the fifteen years, 1916—1930, was 80 7. The number of deaths of illegitimate children under one year of age was 19, or 2 9 per 1,000 of all births, and 87-1 per 1,000 of illegitimate births. Last year the number of deaths was 29, or 4 5 per 1,000 of all births, and 126 08 per 1,000 of illegitimate births. The measures adopted by the County Council for the reduction of Infantile Mortality are fully dealt with in the Report upon Maternity and Child Welfare for the year 1930.