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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
Mitcham 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Case notes for certain
Infectious diseases in the Year 1959 Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns.
| Mitcham | England and Wales | 126c.Bs. and Great Towns including London. | 148 Smaller Towns Resident Pop. 25,000 -50,000 1931 Census. | London Adn. County | England and Wales. | 126 C.Bs. and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns Resident Pop. 25,000 - 50,000 1931 Census. | London Adm. Counter | Mitchan. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate,3 per 1,000 Population:- | Rates per 1,000 Live Births:- | ||||||||||
| Live Births | 15.2 | 15.00 | 14.6 | 15.6 | 12.3 | Deaths under 1 year of age. Deaths from | 50 | 53 | 40 | 48 | 31 |
| Still Births | 0.51 | 0.59 | 0.59 | 0.57 | 0.44 | ||||||
| Deaths | Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age Maternal Mortality:- (???) Sepsis others Total | 4.6 | 6.3 | 3.0 | 8.2 | 1.8 | |||||
| All Causes | 8.6 | 12.1 | 12.0 | 11.2 | 11.9 | ||||||
| Typhoid andParatyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | 0.77 | 1.0 | |||||
| Measles | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 2.16 | Not available | 2.0 | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 2.93 | 3.0 | ||||
| Diphtheria | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.02 | Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still) | |||||
| Influenza | 0.09 | 0.21 | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.18 | ||||||
| Notifications:- | Maternal Mortality Puerperal Sepsis Others Total | 0.74 | 0-9 | ||||||||
| Snall-pox | — | 0.00 | —* | — | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 0.9 | 1.89 | 1.96 | (???) | 1.53 | 2.08 | Not available | 1.9 | |||
| Diphtheria | 0.3 | 1.14 | 1.21 | 1.16 | 0.98 | 2.82 | 2.8 | ||||
| Enteric | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | ||||||
| Erysipelas | 0.3 | 0.34 | 0.04 | 0.31 | 0.37 | Notfications:- | |||||
| Pneunonia | 0.3 | 1.02 | 2.1 | 0.89 | 0.99 | ||||||
| puerperal Fever „ Pryexia | 14.35 | 17.26 | 12.99 | 3.3 14.2 | 4.2 | ||||||