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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE F.
Birth-Rate, Death-Rate, and Analysis of Mortality During the Year 1938 (Provisional figures).
| — | Rate per 1,000 Total Population | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Population | Rate per 1,000 Births | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes | Enteric Fever | Smallpox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | Diarrhoea & Enteritis (under two years) | Total Deaths under one year | |||
| Live Births | Stillbirths | |||||||||||
| England and Wales | 15.1 | 0.60 | 11.6 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 5.5 | 53 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 15.0 | 0.65 | 11.7 | 0.00 | - | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.10 | 7.8 | 57 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (Estimated Resident Popu-lations 25,000-50,000 at Census 1931) | 15.4 | 0.60 | 11.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 3.6 | 51 |
| London | 13.4 | 0.48 | 11.4 | 0.00 | — | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 13.1 | 57 |
| Lambeth | 14.09 | 0.43 | 11.78 | 0.00 | — | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 10.92 | 51 |
The maternal Mortality rates are as follows:—
| Puerperal | Puerperal | ||||||||
| Sepsis | Others | Total | Per 1,000 Total Births, | Sepsis | Others | Total | |||
| Per 1,000 Live Births, England & Wales | 0.89 | 2.19 | 3.08 | England & Wales | 0.86 | 2.11 | 2.97 | ||
| Lambeth | 0.52 | 1.30 | 1.82 | Lambeth | 0.50 | 1.26 | 1.76 | ||