[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County.

  • Newcastle upon Tyne (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE INFANT DEATHS. The rate of 50 per 1,000 live births shows a marked improve¬ ment on the rate for 1943 which was 64. ANALYSIS OF INFANTILE MORTALITY. 1934 1935*1936 I 1937*1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 Death-rate of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 births .... 83 86 90 91 66 62 64 76 59 64 50 Death-rate of Infants under 3 months per 1,000 births 57.2 57.4 58.4 54.0 45.1 44.8 40.4 48.3 40.3 41.1 35.8 Death-rate of Infants from Premature Birth, per 1,000 births 21.5 21.9 23.4 19.4 15.8 17.2 14.6 20.9 16.5 13.8 11.9 Death-rate of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 births, from Premature Birth, plus all Congenital Causes* 38.6 43.3 42.5 35.7 33.8 35.4 31.4 36.9 32.2 31.4 27.3 Death-rate of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 births, from Diarrhoea and all other Digestive Diseases].... 13.4 13.7 22.2 19.0 12.2 7.8 4.5 7.5 7.5 8.6 6.9 Death-rate of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 births, from Infantile Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus .... 4.5 5.6 5.7 1.9 3.2 2.0 1.6 1.4 0.2 0.6 0.7 Death-rate of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 births, from Measles 1.9 0.6 1.3 0.4 1.1 0.2 1.3 0.5 0.7 0.0 0.0 Death-rate of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 births, from Whooping Cough 1.9 2.4 0.9 2.9 0.4 1.1 0.7 3.1 0.9 1.5 0.9 Death-rate of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 births, from Respiratory Diseases 15.5 15.9 12.1 22.1 10.9 8.5 15.3 15.8 12.3 15.8 10.3 Death-rate of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 births from Tuberculosis (all forms).... 1.5 0.9 0.2 1.0 0.2 0.9 1.1 1.2 0.0 0.2 0.7 *“All Congenital Causes” includes Syphilis, Congenital Defects and Diseases of Early Infancy. f“ Diarrhoea and all other Digestive Diseases ” includes Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis, Rickets, Diseases of the Stomach, Enteritis, Obstruction of Intestine, Peritonitis and other Diseases of the Digestive System.