[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley].
- Bexley (London, England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- [1938]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Causes of' death. M. F 17 Aneurysm 2 — 18 Other circulatory diseases 22 24 19 Bronchitis 14 5 20 Pneumonia (all forms) 27 17 21 Other respiratory diseases 2 3 22 Peptic Ulcer 12 3 23 Diarrhoea, etc. (under two years) 3 4 24 Appendicitis 4 1 25 Cirrhosis of liver 2 — 26 Other diseases of liver, etc. — 2 27 Other digestive diseases 8 6 28 Acute and chronic nephritis 5 8 29 Puerperal sepsis — — 30 Other puerperal causes — 1 31 Congenital debility, premature birth. 12 malformation, etc 24 32 Senility 2 9 33 Suicide 3 1 34 Other violence 16 ]3 35 Other defined diseases 30 12 36 Causes ill-defined or unknown 1 1 Special causes (included in No. 35 above):— Small-pox — — Poliomyelitis — — Polioencephalitis — — Anthrax 1 — Maternal Mortality. One death only was registered during the year as due to, or in connection with, childbirth, giving a puer peral mortality rate, (rate per thousand (live and still) births) of 0.77, compared with a rate of 2.2 in 1936, and an average over the previous five years of 2.7, and 3.11 for England and Wales. The death which occurred would probably be classed as unavoidable, and in this Borough where practically all mothers receive ante natal care, one is tempted to regard the low figure as an indication of the good standard of midwifery prac tised, with the proviso that, as our figures are small, statistics over many years only are of real value. 15](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19785100_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
