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 Wanstead and Woodford]
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Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1950.
England and Wales, London, 126 Great Towns and 148 Smaller Towns. (Provisional Figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns)
England and Wales | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns 'Resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census) | London Administrative County | Borough of WANSTEAD and WOODFORD | |
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(Rates per 1,000 Home Population) | |||||
Live | 15 8 | 17.6 | 16.7 | 17 8 | 13.5 |
Still | 0.37 | 0.45 | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.35 |
All Causes | 11.6 | 12.3 | 11.6 | 11.8 | 9.6 |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — |
Tuberculosis | 0.36 | 0.42 | 0.33 | 0.39 | 0.21 |
Influenza | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.06 |
Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — |
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | 002 | 0:02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | - |
Pneumonia | 0.46 | 0.49 | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.32 |
Typhoid Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | — |
Paratyphoid Fever | 0 01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — |
Meningococcal Infection | 0.03 | 0 03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | |
Scarlet Fever | 1.50 | 1.56 | 1.61 | 1.23 | 0.91 |
Whooping Cough | 3.60 | 3.97 | 3 15 | 3.21 | 2.51 |
Diphtheria | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | — |
Erysipelas | 0.17 | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0 17 | 0.11 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — | — |
Measles | 8.39 | 8.76 | 8.36 | 6 57 | 4.69 |
Pneumonia | 0.70 | 0.77 | 0-61 | 0.50 | 0.56 |
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis): Paralytic | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0. i 4 |
Non-Paralytic | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.08 |
Food Poisoning | 0 17 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.25 | 0 94 |
(Rates per 1,000 Live Births) | |||||
All causes under 1 year of age | 29.8 | 33.8 | 29.4 | 26 3 | 18 9 |
Enteritis and Diarrhœa under 2 years | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 2.3 |
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still) | |||||
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia | 5.81 | 7.43 | 4.33 | 6.03 | 11.5 |