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 Mitcham]
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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Case notes for certain
Infectious diseases in the Year 1940.
Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns.
Mitcham | England and Wales. | 126 C.Bs. and Great Towns including London. | 148 Smaller Towns Resident Pop. 25,000 -50,000 1931 Census. | London Adm. County | England 126 C.Bs. and and Great Wales. Towns including London. | |148 Smaller Towns Resident Pop. 25,000 --50,000 1931 Census. | London Adm. County | Mitcham. . | |||
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Deaths under 1 year of age. Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age. | Rates per 1,000 Live Births:- | ||||||||||
Live births | 15.4 | 14.6 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 13.7 | 55 | 61 | 54 | 50 | ||
Still births | 0.41 | 0.55 | 0.64 | 0.55 | 0.44 | ||||||
Deaths:- | |||||||||||
All Causes | 11.8 | 14.3 | 12.8 | 17.8 | |||||||
Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.6 | 5.9 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 2.14 | ||
Small-Pox | - | - | _ | ||||||||
Measles | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | ||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||||
Whooping Cough | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 | Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still) | ||||||
Diphtheria | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.05 | ||||||||
Influenza | 0.32 | 0.29 | 0.30 | 0.18 | |||||||
Notifications:- | Maternal Mortality: Puerperal Sepsis Others Total | ||||||||||
0.52 | - | ||||||||||
Small-pox | - | 0.00 | - | 1.64 | not available | 1.04 | |||||
Scarlet Fever | 0.79 | 1.53 | 1.57 | 2.16 | 1.04 | ||||||
Diphtheria | 1.16 | 1.29 | 1.21 | 0.61 | |||||||
Enteric | - | 0.06 | Notifications:- | ||||||||
Erysipelas | 0.36 | 0.30 | |||||||||
Pneumonia V.booping Cough | 1.20 1.34 | 1.37 1.29 | Puerperal Fever „ Pyrexia | 11.96 | 13.90 | 9-73 | 3.34 13.30 | 1.04 | |||
Measles | 10.24 | 9.23 | 1.78 | ||||||||
* including Puerperal Fever. |