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 Chigwell]
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Comparative Tables of Infectious Disease Notification and Death Rates per 1,000 of the population in 1948.
England and Wales | 126C.B's and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns (Resident pop. 25,000—50,000 at 1931 Census) | London Admin. County | Chigwell Urban District | |
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Notifications (Corrected) | |||||
Typhoid fever | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Cerebro-spinal fever | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.00 |
Scarlet fever | 1.73 | 1.90 | 1.82 | 1.37 | 0.85 |
Whooping cough | 3.42 | 3.51 | 3.31 | 3.13 | 4.55 |
Diphtheria | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.00 |
Erysipelas | 0.21 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.37 |
Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – |
Measles | 9.34 | 9.75 | 8.84 | 9.17 | 15.12 |
Pneumonia | 0.73 | 0.84 | 0.60 | 0.57 | 0.54 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.09 |
Acute Polioencephalitis | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Deaths | |||||
Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Whooping cough | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Tuberculosis | 0.51 | 0.59 | 0.46 | 0.63 | 0.42 |
Influenza | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.03 |
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
Pneumonia | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.54 | 0.28 |