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 Barnes]
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Table 3. — Birth-rate, Death-rate, and Analysis of Mortality from Certain Causes during the Year 1961, with corresponding rates for England and Wales, and for the County of London for comparison.
AREA AND POPULATION | Live Births | Deaths (excluding Stillbirths) | DEATHS FROM | Stillbirths | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age | |||||||
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Malignant neoplasm lung, bronchus | Whooping cough | Diphtheria | Tuberculosis (all forms) | Influenza | Acute Poliomyelitis | Pneumonia | Coronary and arteriosclerotic heart disease | |||||
England and Wales (46,166,000) | 17.4 | 12.0 | 0.49 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.65 | 2.07 | 19.1 | 21.6 |
London (3,179,980) | 18.7 | 11.9 | 0.67 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.76 | 2.05 | 18.3 | 21.5 |
Barnes Borough (38,990) | 13.3 | 10.6 | 0.72 | — | — | 0.03 | 0.05 | — | 0.51 | 2.69 | 7.7 | 11.6 |
Live birth and death rates per 1,000 population. Stillbirth rates per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
Infantile mortality rates per 1.000 live births.