Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1941 page 19

Chelsea 1941

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1941

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TABLE No. 11.

Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Death-rates and Case-rates for certainInfectious Diseases in the year 1941.				England and Wales, London, 126 Great Towns and 148 Smaller Towns.
(Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns.)
England and Wales.		126 County Boro's and Great Towns including London.	148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census).	London Administrative County.
Civilian. Rates per 1,000 Population.
Births:—
Live	14.2*	14.7	16.4	8.9
Still	0.51*	0.58	0.60	0.33
Deaths:—
All Causes	12.9*	14.9	13.0	16.3
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01
Smallpox	-	-	-	-
Measles	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02
Scarlet fever	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00
Whooping Cough	0.06	0.07	0.06	0.04
Diphtheria	0.07	0.08	0.06	0.03
Influenza	0.19	0.17	0.20	0.15
N0T1TI CATIONS:—
Typhoid Fever	0.03	0.02.	0.03	0.04
Paratyphoid Fever	0.09	0.12	0.03	0.05
Smallpox	-	-	-	-
Scarlet fever	1.47	1.49	1.51	1.01
Diphtheria	1.25	1.53	1.19	0.93
Cerebro-Spinal Fever	0.25	0.31	0.20	0.30
Erysipelas	0.30	0.36	0.27	0.50
Pneumonia
Whooping Cough	4.39	4.37	4.50	3.50
Measles	10.33	8.27	10.47	4.77
Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
Deaths under 1 year of age	59	71	56	68
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age	5.1	7.5	4.6	6.8
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still).
Maternal Mortality:- (exciuding abortion)
Puerperal Sepsis	0.48	not available
Others	1.75
Total	2.23
Notifications:—
Puerperal fever	11.91	15.64	943	2.29
Puerperal pyrexia	11.91	15.64	943	19.3†

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* These rates are those published in the Quarterly Reform
- Signifies that there were no dearths.
† Including puerperal fever.