The Health Services
1944-05 1944 1940s 23 pages 15 — but Poverty is still the chief cause of ill-health. The following table shows relative mortality and infant mortality rates for different classes in 1930-32. The average for all classes is taken as 100: Class Infant Mortality Mortality 1. Professi...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : C. W. Publishing Ltd.
May 1944
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| Summary: | 1944-05
1944
1940s
23 pages
15 — but Poverty is still the chief cause of ill-health. The following table shows relative mortality and infant mortality rates for different classes in 1930-32. The average for all classes is taken as 100: Class Infant Mortality Mortality 1. Professional class, etc. 53 96 2. Clerks, shopkeepers, etc. 73 94 3. Skilled manual workers...... 94 97 4. Semi-skilled manual workers. 108 102 5. Unskilled manual workers. 125 111 Infant mortality among the poorest classes, in fact, was more than twice as high as amongst the highest social class. The following table shows the number of lives which would have been saved in the same two years if the infant mortality rates of the other classes had been brought down to the level of class I :[superscript 3] Class First Year. Second Year. 2. 2,243 478 3. 22,286 6,784 4. 11,583 3,548 5. 15,915 6,111 52,027 16,921 Thus the total wastage of life in these two years was nearly 70,000 ; and if still-births are added, nearly 90,000. The infant and maternal mortality rates vary between different districts according to the level of prosperity of the population.[superscript 4] 1938 Infant Mortality Maternal Mortality Southend 34 2.57 Oxford 35 2.02 Merthyr Tydfil 78 6.00 Wigan 99 2.80 Importance of Food. In the Rhondda Valley in 1933-37, as an experiment to investigate the causes of maternal and infant mortality, one group of expectant mothers was provided with additional food and another only with improved medical services. It was found that in the first group maternal mortality was 1.63 per 1,000 births and infant mortality 37 per 1,000 live births, while the respective rates for the other group were 6.15 and 102. The improved nutrition caused by war-time food policy has increased the height of Glasgow school children by an average of .88 inches. Importance of Housing. It was found that the average heights and weights of Scottish school children and the incidence and death rate of tuberculosis bore a direct relationship to the size of house occupied by the families. The smaller children came from the smaller houses and and the larger children from the larger houses. Tuberculosis was more widespread and deadly in districts with much over-crowding.
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