[Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1921
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tered in accordance with the statements of persons giving information the registrars, viz.:— Inanition 2 This is the lowest number of uncertified deaths recorded in any one ;ar in Birkenhead. Causes of death.—From the beginning of 1920 the classification of .uses of death hitherto employed was abandoned, and the recognised ossification contained in the detailed international list was adopted, a analysis on this basis will be found in Tables P 1, P 2, and P 3. Table P 1 (pages 10 to 19) shows the causes of death in detail, sub- classified according to age. Table P 2 (page 20) is a condensed form of Table P 1. Table P 3 (page 21) is similar to Table P 2 but shows a sub- classification according to districts instead of ages. ' Infantile mortality.—There were 289 deaths of infants under 1 year 1. This corresponds to an infantile mortality rate of 75 per 1,000 rths. There were 20 deaths in illegitimate infants under 1 year old; |ving an illegitimate infant mortality rate of 142 per 1,000. Thus the ances of the illegitimate child dying within the first year of life were arly twice those of the legitimate child. The causes of infant deaths, and the ages at which death occurred, |e shown in Table P 4 (page 22). The infantile mortality rate for the year (75 per 1,000 births) is • much the lowest rate ever recorded in the Borough. The infantile mortality rates for the past 30 years are given below, d are also shown graphically on the accompanying chart. While many factors have operated in the reduction of this rate, rere can be no doubt that the work of the Health and Maternity and j lild Welfare Committees has played a most important part. A .vered infant mortality rate is, of course, a direct indication that lives I've been saved which would, under the conditions prevailing in ;evious years, have been lost—and these not the lives of weaklings t'ly, but of delicate and robust alike. Indirectly, a lowered infant Mortality is an index of decreased sickness and disease, and of the |]evention of disability in later life.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927151_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
