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 Stepney]
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Table 1.
COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1950
Stepney | London Administrative County | England 3 and Wales | |
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Births | Rates per 1,000 Home Population | ||
Live births | 18.5 | 17.8 | 15.8 |
Still births | 0.43 | 0.36 | 0.37 |
Deaths | |||
All Causes | 12.58 | 11.8 | 11.6 |
Typhoid and paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Whooping cough | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Tuberculosis | 0.56 | 0.39 | 0.36 |
Influenza | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.10 |
Smallpox | - | - | – |
Acute poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis) | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
Pneumonia | 0.46 | 0.48 | 0.46 |
Notifications (Corrected) | |||
Typhoid fever | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Paratyphoid fever | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Meningococcal infection | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Scarlet fever | 1.06 | 1.23 | 1.50 |
Whooping cough | 2.92 | 3.21 | 3.60 |
Diphtheria | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 |
Erysipelas | 0.17 | 0.17 | 0.17 |
Smallpox | – | - | – |
Measles | 5.05 | 6.57 | 8.39 |
Pneumonia | 0.61 | 0.50 | 0.70 |
Acute poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis) Paralytic | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.13 |
Non-paralytic | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Food poisoning | 0.10 | 0.25 | 0.17 |
Deaths | Rates per 1,000 Live Births | ||
All causes under 1 year of | 26.55 | 26.3 | 29.8 |
Enteritis and diarrhoea under 2 years of age | 2.16 | 1.0 | 1.9 |
Notifications (Corrected) Puerperal fever and | Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births | ||
pyrexia | 7.41 | 6.03 | 5.81 |
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