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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
Erith 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]
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A .l.g. TABLE SHOWING BIRTH RaTE, DEATH RATE, aND ANaLYSIS OF MORTALITY DURING 1943.
Provisional figures. The Mortality rates for England and Wales refer to the whole population but for London and the Towns to civilians only.
| Rate per 1,000 total population. | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Rate per 1,000 live births. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births. | Still Births. | All causes. | Typhoid and Paratyphoid. | Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria . | Influenza. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis under two yrs. | Total deaths under 1 year of ago. | |
| England and Wales | 16.5 | 0.5 | 12.1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.37 | 5.3 | 49 |
| 126 County Boroughs & ) Great Towns, including( London. ) | 18.6 | 0.63 | 14.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.36 | 7.9 | 58 |
| 148 smaller towns res indent population 25,000( 50,000 (1931 census. ) | 19.4 | 0.61 | 12.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.37 | 4.4 | 46 |
| London Admin: County | 15.8 | 0.45 | 15.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.27 | 10.4 | 58 |
| Erith (estimated pop-) lation 37,890.) ) | 21.6 | 0.55 | 11.58 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.39 | 3.64 | 42.57 |