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 East Ham]
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TABLE 1.—BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE AND ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, 1945.
Rate per 1,000 Civilian Population | Annual Death Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population | Rate per 1,000 Live Births | ||||||||||
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Live Births | Still Births | All Causes | Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | Smallpox | Measles | Total Deaths under one year | Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years | |
England and Wales | 16.1 | 0.46 | 11.4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.08 | — | 0.02 | 46 | 5.6 |
126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 19.1 | 0.58 | 13.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.07 | — | 0 .02 | 54 | 7.8 |
148 Smaller Towns (resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1931) | 19.2 | 0.53 | 12.3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.07 | — | 0.02 | 43 | 4.5 |
London—Administrative County | 15.7 | 0.40 | 13.8 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.07 | — | 0.01 | 53 | 7.6 |
EAST HAM | 18.2 | 0.53 | 12.9 | — | — | — | 0.01 | 0.04 | — | 0.01 | 36 | 4.01 |
Per 1,000 related births.
A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths.
Rates per 1,000 total population.
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