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
Mitcham 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1948. (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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births— | Rates per 1,000 civilian population | ||||
| Live | 17.9‡ | 20.0 | 19.2 | 20.1 | 17.99 |
| Still | 0.42‡ | 0.52 | 0.43 | 0.39 | 0.35 |
| Deaths— | |||||
| All causes | 10.8‡ | 11.6 | 10.7 | 11.6 | 8.79 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Whooping cough | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Tuberculosis | 0.51 | 0.59 | 0.46 | 0.63 | 0.63 |
| Influenza | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.04 |
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — |
| Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
| Pneumonia | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.54 | 0.45 |
| Notifications— | |||||
| Typhoid fever | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Cerebro-spinal fever | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| Scarlet fever | 1.73 | 1.90 | 1.82 | 1.37 | 1.39 |
| Whooping cough | 3.42 | 3.51 | 3.31 | 3.13 | 4.02 |
| Diphtheria | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.01 |
| Erysipelas | 0.21 | 0.23 | 0 21 | 0 22 | 0.30 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Measles | 9.34 | 9.75 | 8.84 | 9.17 | 16.16 |
| Pneumonia | 0.73 | 0.84 | 0.60 | 0.57 | 0.65 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.06 |
| Acute Polioencephalitis | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| Rates per 1.000 live births | |||||
| Deaths under one year of age | 34† | 39 | 32 | 31 | 23.49 |
| Deaths from diarrhœa and enteritis under two years of age | 3.3 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 0.84 |
| Rates per 1,000 total births (live and still) | |||||
| Maternal mortality | Not available | ||||
| Abortion with sepsis | 0.11 | ||||
| ,, without sepsis | 0.05 | - | |||
| Puerperal infections | 0.13 | - | |||
| Other | 0.73 | 0.82 | |||
| Notifications— Puerperal fever | 6.89 | 8.90 | 4.71 | 7.34* | 2.47 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | |||||
| Mortality per million women aged 15.44 | |||||
| Abortion— | |||||
| With sepsis | 9 | Not available | |||
| Without sepsis | 4 | ||||
A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths.
* In London, puerperal fever alone was 0.61.
‡ Rates per 1,000 total population. † Per 1,000 related births.