[Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Slough Borough.

  • Slough Borough Council
Date:
1963
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Credit: [Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Slough Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other Accidents = E910 “ E936 3 months Asphyxia due to inhalation of vomited gastric content Home, Coroner s inquest - Verdict misadventure Asphyxia by bed clothing (E,92] 4 months while lying in cot •• Home, Coroner s inquest - Verdict misadventure (E,92‘ PERINATAL MORTALITY In 19633 20 infants died within the first week of life and there were 23 stillbirths, a total of 43 in 1,717 births and equivalent to a loss of 25,05 per 1,000 total births. Reference to the peri-natal mortality has already been made earlier in the report. It includes stillbirths and deat of infants during the first week of life, a period in which they are struggling to adapt themselves to the vast changes they have undergone during and after birth. More and more children who are born alive are kept ali by better treatment including the use of special hospital un and our attention now needs to be focussed more upon the production of live babies and their survival for the first vital few days. We are succeeding in this task although, perhaps, progress is not as fast as we would like, A glance at the table below, however, shows that maternity and child services in 1963, while not managing to improve on previous years, at least managed to hold their own. 34,4 34.0 28.3 26,6 24.4 25.05 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 NEO-NATAL MORTALITY Neo-natal deaths are those occurring within four weeks of birth and the number in 1963 was 22: this gives a neo-nal mortality rate of 13.0- This is, admittedly, much greater tl the rate of 7.7 per thousand live births in 1962 but looks , more reasonable if taken in conjunction with rates for prev years. For example, the rate was 18.15 in 1961, | The National rate in 1963 was 14.2, |
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