London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Tottenham 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Statistics of Tottenham for the last Twenty Years
| Year | Population | Deaths | Death Rate | Births | Birth Rate | Infantile Deaths | Infant Death Rate | Number of Cases | Cancer Deaths | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Tuberculosis | ||||||||||
| Respiratory | Other Forms | ||||||||||||
| 1938 | 144,400 | 1,512 | 10.5 | 1,893 | 13.1 | 89 | 47.0 | 23 | 186 | 221 | 178 | 38 | 207 |
| 1939 | (142,4001) | 1,406 | 10.3 | (1,776*) | 12.5 | 66 | 37.95 | 15 | 335 | 60 | 182 | 30 | 209 |
| (136,000 ) | (1,739 ) | ||||||||||||
| 1940 | 119,400 | 1,703 | 14.26 | (1,666*) | 13.95 | 64 | 41.05 | 20 | 103 | 28 | 178 | 19 | 225 |
| (1,559 ) | |||||||||||||
| 1941 | 105,620 | 1,418 | 13.43 | (1,560*) | 14.77 | 61 | 46.35 | 13 | 103 | 73 | 161 | 28 | 194 |
| (1.316 ) | |||||||||||||
| 1942 | 110,100 | 1,349 | 12.25 | 1,819 | 16.52 | 79 | 43.43 | 12 | 295 | 75 | 164 | 21 | 229 |
| 1943 | 110,350 | 1,513 | 13.71 | 1,970 | 17 85 | 86 | 43.65 | 9 | 340 | 107 | 174 | 24 | 232 |
| 1944 | 108,180 | 1,356 | 12.53 | 2,066 | 19.09 | 87 | 42.11 | 13 | 206 | 44 | 169 | 20 | 236 |
| 1945 | 110,600 | 1,371 | 12.40 | 1,988 | 17.97 | 78 | 39.24 | 14 | 214 | 47 | 139 | 16 | 213 |
| 1946 | 124,830 | 1,491 | 11.94 | 2,580 | 20.67 | 88 | 34.11 | 13 | 323 | 83 | 198 | 24 | 266 |
| 1947 | 129,140 | 1,461 | 11.31 | 2,785 | 21.57 | 76 | 27.29 | 24 | 272 | 22 | 171 | 18 | 223 |
| 1948 | 130,000 | 1,377 | 10.59 | 2,233 | 17.18 | 53 | 23.73 | 5 | 260 | 3 | 184 | 19 | 272 |
| 1949 | 130,040 | 1,440 | 11.07 | 2,009 | 15.45 | 50 | 24.89 | 15 | 251 | 4 | 210 | 22 | 264 |
| 1950 | 129,400 | 1,382 | 10.68 | 1,727 | 13.35 | 41 | 23.74 | 9 | 356 | 3 | 161 | 13 | 262 |
| 1951 | 126,800 | 1,520 | 11.99 | 1,673 | 13.19 | 43 | 25.70 | 5 | 245 | - | 192 | 9 | 273 |
| 1952 | 125,800 | 1,415 | 11.25 | 1,665 | 13.24 | 34 | 20 .41 | 1 | 356 | - | 163 | 16 | 277 |
| 1953 | 124.400 | 1,347 | 10.83 | 1,642 | 13.20 | 43 | 26.19 | 1 | 215 | 1 | 143 | 20 | 284 |
| 1954 | 123,200 | 1,187 | 9.63 | 1,524 | 12.37 | 27 | 17.72 | 1 | 92 | - | 126 | 5 | 251 |
| 1955 | 122.100 | 1,331 | 10.9 | 1,511 | 12.38 | 25 | 16.55 | 1 | 75 | 1 | 126 | 18 | 308 |
| 1956 | 120,700 | 1,252 | 10.4 | 1,560 | 12.92 | 38 | 24.36 | 1 | 80 | 1 | 92 | 9 | 281 |
| 1957 | 119,300 | 1,314 | 11.02 | 1,658 | 13.90 | 42 | 25.33 | 2 | 92 | - | 86 | 4 | 296 |
*For the years 1939 1941 alternative birth figures were given by the Registrar General
(a) for calculation of birth rates, and
(b) for calculation of death rates or the incidence of notifiable diseases,
Likewise for the year 1939 only, two population figures were given:-
(a) for calculation of birth rates; and
(b) for calculation of death rates, etc.