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 Chingford]
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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Death-rates, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year, 1937.
England and Wales, London 125 Great Towns and 148 Smaller Towns.
(Provisional Figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns)
England and Wales | 125 County Boro's and Great Towns including London | 148 smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census) | London Administrative County | Chingford | |
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Rates per 1,000 Population | |||||
Live | 14.9 | 14.9 | 15.3 | 13.3 | 16.3 |
Still | 0.60 | 0.67 | 0.64 | 0.54 | 0.47 |
All Causes | 12.4 | 12.5 | 11.9 | 12.3 | 8.8 |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Smallpox | —- | — | — | — | — |
Measles | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Scarlet fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Whooping Cough | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.05 |
Diphtheria . | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.02 |
Influenza | 0.45 | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.38 | 0.33 |
Violence (including suicide) | 0.54 | 0.45 | 0.42 | 0.51 | 0.44 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | — | — |
Scarlet fever | 2.33 | 2.56 | 2.42 | 2.09 | 1.7 |
Diphtheria | 1.49 | 1.81 | 1.38 | 1.93 | 0.61 |
Enteric fever | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.30 |
Erysipelas | 0.37 | 0.43 | 0.34 | 0.44 | 0.27 |
Pneumonia | 1.36 | 1.58 | 1.20 | 1.18 | 0.90 |
Rates per 1,000 Live Births | |||||
Deaths under 1 year of age | 58 | 62 | 55 | 60 | 44 |
Deaths from Diarrhoea 1 and Enteritis under > 2 years of age J | 5.8 | 7.9 | 3.2 | 12.0 | 6.7 |
Puerperal Sepsis | 0.97 | Not available. | — | ||
Others | 2.26 | ||||
Total | 3.23 | ||||
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still) | |||||
Puerperal Sepsis | 0.94 | Not available. | — | ||
Others | 2.17 | ||||
Total | 3.11 | ||||
Puerperal fever | 13.93 | 17.59 | 11.52 | 11.5 | |
Puerperal pyrexia | 14.34 |