[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Slough Borough.

  • Slough Borough Council
Date:
1962
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Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Slough Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MATERNAL MORTALITY t Although I was unhappily obliged to record the death one mother last year due to child-birth, I am delighted to able to say that no deaths from this cause arose in 1962. During the past twelve years there have been 13,579 births i only two mothers have died as the result of pregnancy or child'-birth. Even two is obviously too many, but the fact t the number is so low reflects very great credit upon the ] maternity services of this area. j INFANT MORTALITY After allowing for inward and outward transfers, the Registrar General allocated 23 deaths of children under the* age of one year to this town. Eighteen of these were males I 5 were females. As this figure, which was very much lower 1i last year’s high figure of 38, is taken in conjunction with further increase in the number of births, the infant morta] rate fell to 13.6 per thousand live births compared with 2i for the year 1961 and 21.4 per thousand as the national fij for 1962, The table on the next page shows only 22 deaths i this is the number which has been given by the local Registji There is sometimes a discrepancy between these figures and ■ those of the local Registrar, and although those of the Registrar General are always used for compiling statistics, details are of course only given of those cases which actuijtj occur. Over the years, there is of course no discrepancy a all between the two. When compiling a table which must include a number o;! causes of death under each specific heading, it is difficuitj to be certain of the significance of each figure under the;0 subsequent columns. This year I have, therefore, extended I table to show the international classification of the deatl|| and have tabulated further details. In addition to this I ^ have indicated where the various children have died, whethJ at home, whether in hospitals in this area, or whether at . hospitals away frcxn this area. j li
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