[Report 1938] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    13/144 (page 5)
    WOMEN DYING IN, OR IN CONSEQUENCE OP CHILDBIRTH.— The number of deaths registered during the year from accidents and diseases of pregnancy and parturition was 38, 13 from Puerperal Sepsis and 25 from other causes associated with childbirth. This is equal to a rate of 7 68 per 1,000 live births, which shows a considerable increase compared with last year (4'52). The rate is still considerably higher than that of England and Wales, which for the year 1938 was 3 08 per 1,000 live births registered. INFANTILE MORTALITY.—The total number of deaths under one year of age throughout the Administrative County was 276, 254 in the Urban Districts and 22 in the Rural Districts. The rate per 1,000 births was 55 8, a decrease of 81 upon the figure foi 1937, which was 63 9. ^ In the Urban Districts the rate was 62 7 per 1,000 births, and in the Rural Districts 41 I per 1,000 births. In 1937 the Infantile Mortality rate was 63 9; in 1936, 61 7; in 1935, 61’4; in 1934, 57-4; in 1933, 7172; in 1932, 67 7; in 1931, 71 9; in 1930, 64-9; in 1929, 67 7; 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; and in 1912, 105. The rate for England and Wales was 53 0. The average Infantile Mortality rate for the 25 years, 1891-1915, was 137 4. The average rate for the 23 years, 1916-1938, was 74 8. The number of deaths of illegitimate children under one year of age was 10, or 2 0 per 1,000 of all births, and 52 9 per 1,000 of illegitimate births. Last year the number of deaths was 9, or 1 8 per 1,000 of all births, and 54 5 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 1938.