London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Walthamstow 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
This page requires JavaScript
The following table compares the above statistics for the quinquennium:-
| Year. | Estimated Population. | Live Births. | Birth Rate. | Deaths. | Death Rate. | Infant Mortality. | Deaths from | Zymotic Disease Death Rate. | Natural increase of Population. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legit. | Illeg. | Total. | Legit. | Illeg. | Total. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. and Enteritis under 2 years. | |||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||||||||||||
| 1930 | 124800 | 978 | 936 | 23 | 22 | 1959 | 15.7 | 1160 | 9.3 | 39 | 44 | 39 | 28 | 2 | 8 | 0.50 | 799 |
| 1929 | 124800 | 954 | 944 | 22 | 14 | 1934 | 15.5 | 1448 | 11.6 | 54 | 84 | 53 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 0.39 | 486 |
| 1928 | 122400 | 974 | 974 | 21 | 22 | 1991 | 16.2 | 1265 | 10.4 | 49 | 93 | 51 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 0.33 | 726 |
| 1927 | 124330 | 993 | 987 | 24 | 21 | 2025 | 16.3 | 1317 | 10.6 | 49 | 222 | 52 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 0.27 | 708 |
| 1926 | 125500 | 1094 | 1083 | 20 | 21 | 2218 | 17.7 | 1149 | 9.2 | 42 | 122 | 45 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 0.30 | 1069 |
The Zymotic Disease Death-rate is the rate per 1,000 population;
of deaths from the following diseases:-Enteric Fever, Smallpox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria and Diarrhoea,,
etc., under two years. The 1930 rate is high because of the increased
number of deaths from Measles and Diphtheria.
The Pulmonary Tuberculosis Death-rate was 0.64 per 1,000
population, and the Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis Death-rate was
0.07 per 1,000 population.