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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

Edmonton 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]

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Table: VITAL STATISTICS.

VITAL STATISTICS.

Live Births.Grand Total.
M.F.Total.
Legitimate7717801,551
Illegitimate2022421,593
Birth-rate per 1,000 of population.........16.1
Still-births.Grand Total.
M.F.Total.
Legitimate322355
Illegitimate—1156
Total of live and still births.........1,649
Rate per 1,000 total births.........33.9
Deaths.
M.F.Total.
Number441449890
Rate per 1,000 population.........8.99
Deaths from Puerperal Causes.
Rate per 1,000 total Deaths. (live and still) births.
Puerperal sepsis31.8
Other puerperal causes21.2
53.0
Death-rate of infants under one year of age.
M.F.Total.
Number432770
All infants per 1,000 live births43.9
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births43.8
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births47.6
Deaths from cancer (all ages)110
,, measles (all ages)9
,, whooping cough (all ages)6
,, diarrhoea (under 2 years of age)10

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GENERAL INVALIDITY.
The children attending our feeding centres are not so great in number as
in previous years, this is to a great extent due to the desire on the part of
the parents to feed them at home, and not at the feeding centres; also to the
fact that the malnourished child is becoming more speedily attended to, and
thereby becoming less in number.
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