Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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TABLE 4-
adminnistrative country of london - civiliam deales in 1951 by case
Period | Annual rate per 1,000 living | Annual mortality per 1,000 living (6) | Annual mortality per 1,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Live Births | Total births (c) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Live births | Marriages | Deaths (all causes) | Meningococcal infection | Diphtheria | Enteric fever | Scarlet lever | Smallpox | Whooping. cough | Measles | Tuberculosis | Pneumonia (all forms) | Bronchitis | Other resp. diseases | Heart disease | Cancer | Diabetes | Infants 0—1 | Diarrhoea and enteritis 0—2 | Puerperal fever | Other child.birth | |||
Influenza | Pulmonary | Non.pulmonary | |||||||||||||||||||||
1891-95 | 30.8 | 17.3 | 19.8 | (a) | 0.53 | 0.13 | 0.24 | 0.02 | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.41 | 1 .83 | 0.80 | 1.45 | 2.45 | 0.48 | 0.80 | 0.07 | 156 | 23.8 | 2.15 | 2.22 | |
1896-1900 | 29.7 | 18.4 | 18.5 | (a) | 0.45 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.47 | 0.57 | 0.27 | 1.75 | 0.69 | 1.32 | 1.80 | 0.35 | 0.92 | 0.07 | 162 | 41.3 | 1.70 | 1.74 | |
1901-05 | 28.6 | 17.7 | 16.4 | (a) | 0.20 | 0.08 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.36 | 0.45 | 0.17 | 1.58 | 0.57 | 1.46 | 1.41 | 0.26 | 1.31 | 1.01 | 0.08 | 139 | 30.4 | 1.64 | 1.52 |
1906-10 | 26.5 | 17.4 | 14.9 | (a) | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.29 | 0.42 | 0.22 | 1.39 | 0.48 | 1.49 | 1.22 | 0.22 | 1.26 | 1.11 | 0.10 | 114 | 23.8 | 1.40 | 1.47 |
1911-15 | 24.0 | 20.0 | 14.8 | 0.02 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0 00 | 0.22 | 0.43 | 0.16 | 1.39 | 0.39 | 1.33 | 1.29 | 0.21 | 1.54 | 1.16 | 0.11 | 108 | 28.0 | 1.40 | 1 .57 |
1916-20 | 20.0 | 20.1 | 15.1 | 0.04 | 0.17 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.28 | 1.01 | 1.43 | 0.34 | 1.38 | 1.30 | 0.19 | 1.71 | 1 .28 | 0.09 | 92 | 15.4 | 1.64 | 1.72 |
1921-25 | 19.9 | 17.9 | 12.3 | 0.01 | 0.17 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.32 | 1.01 | 0.19 | 1.14 | 0.97 | 0.16 | 1.66 | 1 .38 | 0.10 | 71 | 11.7 | 1.36 | 1.63 |
1926-30 | 16.2 | 18.6 | 12.3 | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.30 | 0.90 | 0.14 | 1.00 | 0.72 | 0.16 | 2.29 | 1.52 | 0.12 | 64 | 10.2 | 1.60 | 1.63 |
1931-35 | 13.8 | 19.5 | 12.1 | 0.03 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.26 | 0.79 | 0.11 | 0.85 | 0.47 | 0.14 | 2.99 | 1.66 | 0.14 | 63 | 11.6 | 0.99 | 1.38 (d) |
1936-40 | 13.7 | 25.4 | 13.4 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.01 | — | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.19 | 0.72 | 0.09 | 0.83 | 0.67 | 0.13 | 3.67 | 1.87 | 0.16 | 56 | 10.9 | 0.49 | 0.97 |
1941-45 | 15.4 | 23.3 | 16.0 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.003 | 0.002 | — | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.14 | 0.90 | 0.11 | 0.91 | 1.14 | 0.16 | 3 99 | 2.38 | 0.11 | 48 | 8.0 | 0.28 | 1.08 |
1946 | 20.0 | 22.1 | 12.6 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0 00 | 0.00 | — | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.12 | 0.62 | 0.08 | 0.71 | 0.92 | 0.13 | 3.36 | 2.04 | 0.08 | 38 | 4.1 | 0.12 | 0.80 |
1947 | 20.9 | 23.2 | 12.5 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.09 | 0.62 | 0.08 | 0.75 | 1.03 | 0.15 | 3.37 | 2.06 | 0.07 | 34 | 4.5 | 0.12 | 0.55 |
1948 | 17.9 | 22.7 | 11.1 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.57 | 0.06 | 0.54 | 0.73 | 0.12 | 2.97 | 211 | 0.06 | 31 | 2.7 | 0.13 | 0.37 |
1949 | 16.7 | 21.1 | 11.7 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.47 | 0.05 | 0.61 | 0.90 | 0.15 | 3.31 | 2.10 | 0.07 | 27 | 1.7 | 0.02 | 0.38 |
1950 | 15.7 | 20.2 | 11.3 | 0.01 | 0 00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.36 | 0.04 | 0.50 | 0.78 | 0.10 | 3.54 | 2.20 | 0.08 | 26 | 1.2 | — | 0.53 |
1951 | 15.6 | 20.6 | 12.6 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.24 | 0.34 | 0.04 | 0.64 | 1.14 | 0.12 | 3.87 | 2.27 | 0.09 | 25 | 0.8 | 0.06 | 0.39 |
(a) Comparable figures are not available for this period.
(b) Death.rates from 1939 to 1949 relate to the civilian population only. Death.rates for tuberculosis are expressed per 1,000 total population in Table 10.
(c) The rates are per 1,000 total births from 1928 when still births were first registered. Prior to this year the rates are per 1,000 live births, and are estimated
to be approx. 0.05 in excess of the rate per 1,000 total births.
(d) From 1931 death9 from abortion are exoluded.