Infant mortality in Scotland / the report of a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Committee.
- Great Britain. Department of Health for Scotland. Scientific Advisory Committee on Medical Administration and Investigation.
- Date:
- 1943
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Infant mortality in Scotland / the report of a sub-committee of the Scientific Advisory Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Table 9.—continued. Population infant ; | in millions. mortality rate. sydney -. : : : 1:3 39 Melbourne ; ; : 1-1 3Y Auckland . ; ; : 0-2 35 Wellington : ; : 0-1 38 Amsterdam : ; ; 0:8 OL Copenhagen : ‘ : 0:8 38 Oslo ‘ : : 2 0:3 35 Stockholm : 5 0-6 35 1932 1934 1936 1938 1940 New York * 10d 52 45 38 35 Chicago. beet 48 39 34 29 Philadelphia 12 54 48 40 A Detroit: =. 4B2 50 53 4] . Los Angeles <5 53 56 43 4 1 Rate not available. These figures are further illustrated in Fig. 4 (opposite). Occupational or Social Class Mortality in England and Wales: Table 10 shows the mortality of legitimate infants, according to the social class of the Registrar-General’s classification by father’s occupation.* In social class I are included those with the highest incomes ; in class V are those with the lowest incomes. No data for occupational or social class mortality are available in Scotland. There is a steady rise in mortality from class I to class V at all ages under one year, which becomes more marked as the baby gets older. The neonatal Table 10.—Mortality of' Legitimate Infants according to Social Class of Father, England and Wales, 1930-382 -Mortality of Children of specified class per cent. Rate per 1,000 legitimate live births. of that of all legitimate Age children. All (ietes! Tiwi Lh... OV: if Tie itis, 1 Vos Under 4 weeks . 30°2 917-292 29:4 “31-9 32°b |. 72 90 97S 106<—-F08 1-—3 months 10°0 4:3=-6°D 39°3, 10:8 2321 43 65 OS dO8 “131 3-6 3 8°4 Slee 4:57 “a7 924 STDC eS 7 56 89 112 143 6--9 - 6°9 1:0 e3°6> “65052728 - 10:2 28 52 Sit loses 9-12 _,, F 6-1 17-230 45:3.526°9 _ 9:25028 49 roy Poe be bs Pee on a9 | Under 1 year : 61°6 32°7. 45°0. 57°6 66:8 77°) }263 a3 94° 108 125 * The five classes distinguished by the Registrar-General include : class I, higher ranks vf business and professional life; class II, retail trades, clerks, teachers, etc., farmers ; class III, skilled labour; class IV, neither artisan nor wholly unskilled, farm labourers ; class V, unskilled labour. They are not co-extensive with income groupings, but an analysis of 5,000 families by Crawford and Broadley (1938) indicates, along with the fact that children tend to be concentrated in low-income families, that so far as families with children are concerned the association between class and income is very high.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32174640_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
