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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

Wanstead and Woodford 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wanstead and Woodford]

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Table: Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1958 England and Wales and London (Provisional Figures based on Quarterly Returns).

Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1958 England and Wales and London (Provisional Figures based on Quarterly Returns).

England and WalesLondon Administrative CountyBorough of WANSTEAD and WOODFORD
Births: (Rates per 1,000 Home Population)
Live15.116.712.2
Still0.360.340.21
Deaths: All causes11.6811.811.37
Malignant Neoplasm Lung and Bronchus0.440.640.55
Whooping Cough0.000.00—
Diphtheria0.000.00—
Tuberculosis0.100.130.05
Influenza0.050.050.05
Coronary Disease —Angina1.861.842.01
Acute Poliomyelitis & Polioencephalitis0.000.00—
Pneumonia0.540.700.52
(Rates per 1,000 live births)
All causes under 1 year of age22.622.69.36
Enteritis and Diarrhoea under 2 years of age0.44*—
*Figures not available.