[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham].

  • East Ham (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
[1946]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11 natural causes during the war and the following information is therefore given:— Year Total No. of deaths No. of deaths due to enemy action Nett deaths Total death rate Nett death rate 1939 1,400 — 1,400 11.4 11.4 1940 1,684 215 1.469 16.2 13.6 1941 1,296 167 1,129 16.1 13.9 1942 1,157 1 1,156 14.09 14.09 1943 1,232 10 1,222 13.27 13.1 1944 1,316 124 1,192 14.4 13.08 1945 1,235 50 1.185 12.9 12.4 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 England & Wales 12.1 14.3 12.9 11.6 12.1 11.6 11.4 East Ham 11.4 16.2 16.1 14.09 13.27 14.4 12.9 Infantile Mortality. Deaths of infants under one year numbered 63—equivalent to an infant mortality of 36 per thousand live births—compared with a rate of 31 for Ihe previous year. The rate for England and Wales was 46. The number of deaths of illegitimate children was 4 out of a total of 105 illegitimate births, giving a mortality rate of 38 as compared with a figure of 48 per 1,000 illegitimate live births for the year 1944- Infantile mortality rates since 1939 are as follows:— 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 East Ham 41 41 46 54 48 31 36 England & Wales 5° 55 59 49 49 46 46 Illegitimate births and the illegitimate mortality rates since 1939 are tabulated below:— 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 No. of illegitimate births 41 45 57 66 71 82 105 Mortality rate per 1,000 illegi timate live births 48 111 58 29 56 48 38 Neo=Natal Mortality. Children dying under the age of one month totalled 34, equal to a neo-natal mortality of 19.5 .per 1,000 live births. These rates from 1939 are indicated below:— 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 21.1 21.6 20.5 35.4 23.5 17.3 19.5