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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Ilford 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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TABLE 1A
Table showing comparison between the Birth-rate, Death-rate, etc., of Ilford, other Towns, and of England and Wales for the
Year 1948 (Provisionalfigures).
| Rate per 1,000 Total Population | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Population | Rate per 1,000 Live Births | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes | Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers | Smallpox | Tuberculosis (all forms) | Pneumonia | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 Yrs.) | Total Deaths under 1 Year | |||
| Live Births | Stillbirths | ||||||||||||
| England and Wales . | 17.9 | 0.42 | 10.8 | 0.00 | - | 0.51 | 0.41 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 3.3 | 34 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 20.0 | 0.52 | 11.6 | 0.00 | - | 0.59 | 0.38 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 4.5 | 39 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (Estimated Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census 1931) | 19.2 | 0.43 | 10.7 | 0.00 | - | 0.46 | 0.36 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 2.1 | 32 |
| London Administrative Co. | 20.1 | 0.39 | 11.6 | 0.00 | - | 0.63 | 0.54 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 2.4 | 31 |
| ILFORD (Estimated Gross Population, mid 1948 = 183,400) | 15.5 | 0.35 | 8.2 | - | - | 0.37 | 0.27 | - | - | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.3 | 21 |
| A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths. | |||||||||||||