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 Ruislip]
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S.D. 55.
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 145 Smaller Towns.
England and Wales. | 125 County Boro's. and Great Towns including London. | 145 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census). | London Administrative County. | ||
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Rates per 1,000 Population. | |||||
Live | 14.9 | 14.9 | 15.3 | 13.3 | |
Still | 0.60 | 0.67 | 0.64 | 0.54 | |
All Causes | 12.4 | 12.5 | 11.9 | 12.3 | |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
Smallpox | — | — | — | —. | |
Measlee | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.01 | |
Scarlet, fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | |
Whooping Cough | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.06 | |
Diphtheria | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.05 | |
Influenza | 0.45 | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.38 | |
Violence | 0.54 | 0.45 | 0.42 | 0.51 | |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | ||
Scarlet fever | 2.33 | 2.56 | 2.42 | 2.09 | |
Diphtheria | 1.49 | 1.81 | 1.38 | 1.93 | |
Enteric fever | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.05 | |
Erysipelas | 0.37 | 0.43 | 0.34 | 0.44 | |
Pneumonia | 1.36 | 1.58 | 1.20 | 1.18 | |
Rates per 1,000 Live Births. | |||||
Deaths under 1 year of age | 58 | 62 | 55 | 60 | |
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 5.8 | 7.9 | 3.2 | 12.0 | |
Puerperal Sepsis | 0.97 | Not available. | |||
Others ...... ............ | 2.26 | ||||
Total | 3.23 | ||||
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still). | |||||
Puerperal Sepsis | 0.94 | Not available | |||
Others | 2.17 | ||||
Total | 3.11 | ||||
Puerperal fever | 13.93 | 17.59 | 11.52 | 4.15 | |
Puerperal pyrexia | 14.34 |