[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland (England). County Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Matornity and Child Welfare. Maternal Mortality. It is gratifying to be able to report that the number of maternal deaths occurring in the County during the year was exceptionally low, the total number of maternal deaths recorded being 5. The maternal death rate per 1,0(10 births is 1.4 as against 2..') for the previous year. The corresponding ligure for England and Wales is 2.10. Of the 5 deaths shown in the table below one was attributable to puerperal sepsis, and 4 to other causes associ- ated with pregnancy and child-birth. These figures show County rates for puerperal sepsis of 0.28, and for other causes of 1.12, against corresponding figures for England and Wales of 0.52 and 1.64. Our puerperal sepsis rate is therefore below the rate for the whole country. The mortality figures for the immediately preceding years were as under :— 1939— 22 dealhs equal to a rate of 6.7 per 1,000 births. 1940— 9 „ 2.6 1941— 9 „ 2.5 1942— 5 ,. ,, 1.4 The 5 deaths which occurred in 1942 are divided as follows :— Puerperal Sepsi.s .. . . .. .. . . 1 Other Puerperal Cau.ses . . . . . . . . 4 The distribution of deaths by areas is .shown in the table below :— Piin'pi’.i'dl Oilin' J^Hci'pci'til Sepsis. Ciinsrs. Whitehaven llorou.nh . . ' — . . 2 Cnclcermouth Rural . . . . — . . 1 Penrith Uural . . . . 1 . . — Wigton Rural . . . . . . — .. 1 1 . . 4 .Among the deaths clas.siried as “ other imcrpcral causes ” the death certilicatcs show the causes of death to be as under : |)c!i\’ery dI' inaceraled lOetu's; ])nst-par1 inn haeniorriiage : 11 ypcreniesis gravid,innn, adherent ])laci'iUn, heart failure: Rctoiiic pregnancN' : interna! haeiniiriliagc. Pre-eclani|)lic Invannia—cerebral hannori hage. t)ur m;itern;d detith r;itc at 1.4 is the lowest for a number of yetirs. One swallow does not mttke :i summer, howex’er, and it is much too early to base deductions on the figures for one year,