[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington] page 6

Orpington 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Death-rates, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1937.

England and Wales, London, 125 Great Towns and 148 Smaller Towns.

	England and Wales	125 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London	148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census)	London Administrative County	Orpington Urban District
Rates per 1,000 Population
Births :— Live	14.9	14.9	15.3	13.3	18.0
Still	0.60	0.67	0.64	0.54	0.57
Deaths:— All causes	12.4	12.5	11.9	12.3	8.6
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00
Smallpox	—	—	—	—	—
Measles	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.01	0.00
Scarlet Fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00
Whooping Cough	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.06	0.00
Diphtheria	0.07	0.08	0.05	0.05	0.06
Influenza	0.45	0.39	0.42	0.38	0.18
Violence	0.54	0.45	0.42	0.51	0.50
Notifications:— Smallpox	0.00		0.00
Scarlet Fever	2.33	2.56	2.42	2.09	1.67
Diphtheria	1.49	1.81	1.38	1.93	121
Enteric Fever	0.05	0.06	0.04	0.05	0 09
Erysipelas	0.37	0.43	0.34	0.44	0.43
Pneumonia	1.36	1.58	1.20	1.18	0.61
Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Deaths under 1 year of age	58	62	55	60	52
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age	5.8	7.9	3.2	12.0	10.17
Maternal Mortality:— Puerperal Sepsis	0.971	Not available
Others	2.26				1.27
Total	3.23				1.27
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e. Live and Still)
Maternal Mortality:— Puerperal Sepsis	0.941	Not available
Others	2.17				1.23
Total	3.11				1.23
Notifications :— Puerperal Fever	13.93	17.59	11.52	14.15	4.93
Puerperal pyrexia	13.93	17.59	11.52	14.34	6.16