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Mitcham 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality,
Maternal Death-rates, and Case-rates for
certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1938.
England and Wales, London,
126 Great Towns and 148
Smaller Towns.
(Provisional figures based on weekly and quarterly returns.)
| England and Wales. | 126 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 | 15.1 | 15.0 | 15.4 | 13.4 | 15.1 |
| Still | 0.60 | 0.65 | 0.60 | 0.48 | 0.42 |
| Deaths— | |||||
| All causes | 11.6 | 11.7 | 11.0 | 11.4 | 8.3 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | — | 0 00 | — | — |
| Measles | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.01 |
| Scarlet fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Whooping cough | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
| Diphtheria | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.01 |
| Influenza | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 0.09 |
| Notifications— | |||||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 |
| Scarlet fever | 2.41 | 2.60 | 2.58 | 2.05 | 2.27 |
| Diphtheria | 1.58 | 1.85 | 1.53 | 1.90 | 0.96 |
| Enteric fever | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.01 |
| Erysipelas | 0.40 | 0.46 | 0.39 | 0.46 | 0.12 |
| Pneumonia | 1.10 | 1.28 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.65 |
| Rates per 1,000 live births. | |||||
| Deaths under one year of age | 53 | 57 | 51 | 57 | 38 |
| Deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years of age | 5.5 | 7.8 | 3.6 | 13.1 | 9 |
| Maternal mortality— | |||||
| Puerperal sepsis | 0.89 | Not available | — | ||
| Others | 2.19 | 3.00 | |||
| Total | 3.08 | 3.00 | |||
| Rates per 1,000 total births (i.e., live and still). | |||||
| Maternal mortality— | |||||
| Puerperal sepsis | 0.86 | Not available | - | ||
| Others | 2.11 | 2.90 | |||
| Total | 2.97 | 2.90 | |||
| Notifications— | |||||
| Puerperal fever | 14.42 | 18.08 | 12.51 | 3.53 | - |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 15.46 | 3.8 | |||