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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, England and Wales, London,
Maternal Death-rates, and Case-rates for 125 Great Towns and 148
certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1937. Smaller Towns.
Table: (Provisional figures based on weekly and quarterly returns.)
(Provisional figures based on weekly and quarterly returns.)
England and Wales.
125 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London.
148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 census).
London Administrative County.
Mitcham
Rates per 1,000 population.
Births—
Live
14.9
14.9
15.3
13.3
14.3
Still
0.60
0.67
0.64
0.54
0.45
Deaths—
All causes
12.4
12.5
11.9
12.3
8.5
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers
0.0
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
0.0 L
0.01
—
Whooping cough
0 04
0.04
0.03
0.06
0.04
Diphtheria
0.07
0.08
0.05
0.05
0.07
Influenza
0.45
0.39
0.42
0.38
0.22
Violence
0.54
0.45
0.42
0.51
0.45
Notifications—
Smallpox
0.00
0.00
—
—
—
Scarlet fever
2.33
2.56
2.42
2.09
29
Diphtheria
1.49
1.81
1.38
1.93
1.3
Enteric fever
0.05
0 06
0.04
0.05
0.00
Erysipelas
0.37
0.43
0.34
0.44
0.24
Pneumonia
1.36
1.58
1.20
1 18
0.48
Rates per 1,000 live births.
Deaths under one year of age
58
62
55
60
43
Deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years of age
5.8
7.9
3.2
12.0
5.2
Maternal mortality—
Puerperal sepsis
0.97 ,
Not available
0.0
Others
2.26
2.1
Total
3.23 1
2.1
Rates per 1,000 total births (i.e., live and still).
