[Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Swindon Borough.

  • Swindon Borough Council
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Swindon Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    32 Deaths Between the End of the First Day and the End of The First Week. 10 such deaths occurred, against 5 for last year. 7 were males and 3 females. 4 were first pregnancies and the.remainder subsequent pregnancies. All were legitimate. 1 was born from a mother dead from influenzal pneumonia, the infant surviving two days ; 2 were premature twins weighing respectively 21bs. and 41bs. ; 1 was a premature weighing 3| lbs. ; 2 were early pre¬ matures ; 1 was a transverse presentation in which the child had probably been damaged in delivery ; 1 was delivered from a deformed tuberculous mother ; 1 is said to have had a congenital heart, on extremely doubtful evidence, and 1 died of haematemesis of unknown causation. Deaths Between the End of the First Week and the End of The First Month. 4 such deaths occurred, against 6 for last year. All were males and all were legitimate. 2 were first pregnancies and 2 sub]sequent pregnancies. 2 were breast fed, who died respectively of a undice and marasmus ; they were both probably congenital syphilis. 2 were artificially fed ; 1 of these had spina bifida, but both most certainly died from illfeeding. Deaths Between the End of the First Month and the End of The First Year. 18 such deaths occurred, against 24 in 1926. 12 were males and 6 females. 3 were illegitimate. 6 cases had not attended the clinic,s and their previous history was unknown. 2 of these had been breast fed ; 1 died from pneumonia and 1, certified as bron¬ chitis died from acute mastoid disease. 4 had been artificially fed; 2 of these were certified as dying from bronchitis, 1 from gastritis and 1 from mitral disease, but the evidence is conclusive that all these 4 died from improper feeding. Of the 12 cases which had attended the clinics and whose life histories were known completely, 2 were breast fed. Of these, 1 died from bronchitis and convulsions and was living in a household where there were two cases of very active tuberculosis ; the other died of whooping cough. Of the 10 that were artificially fed, 1 certified as marasmus died of congenital syphilis ; 1 died of influenzal pneumonia ; 2 died of tracheal diphtheria, 1 of whooping cough, 1 from shock following operation for naevus ; 1 from bron¬ cho pneumonia (this was a case that had suffered from opththalmia neonatorum due to the pneumococcus) ; 1 was certified as having died from congenital heart disease, but there was no evidence
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