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, 1946.
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 Fevers. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Influenza. | Smallpox. | Measles. | Total Deaths under one year. | Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years.) | |
England and Wales | ‡19.1 | ‡0.53 | ‡11.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | †43 | 4.4 |
126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London. | 22.2 | 0.67 | 12.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 46 | 6.1 |
148 Smaller Towns (resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census, 1931.) | 21.3 | 0.59 | 11.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 37 | 2.8 |
London—Administrative County | 21.5 | 0.54 | 12.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.12 | – | 0.01 | 41 | 4.2 |
East Ham | 22.69 | 0.56 | 10.6 | – | – | – | – | 0.07 | – | – | 30 | 3.1 |
† Per 1,000 related births.
A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths.
‡ Rates per 1,000 total population.