[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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Table: Birth rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1950. (Provisional figures based on quarterly returns.)
Birth rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1950. (Provisional figures based on 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 ccnsus)
London Administrative County
Mitcham
Bates per 1,000 home population
Births—
Live
15.8
17.6
16.7
17.8
13.51
StillDeaths—
0.37
0.15
0.38
0.36
0.33
All causes
11.6
12.3
11.6
11.8
9.19
Typhoid and Paratyphoid
00.0
0.00
0 00
0.00
0.00
Whooping cough
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.00
Diphtheria
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Tuberculosis
0.36
0.42
0.33
0.39
0.50
Influenza
0.10
0.09
0.10
0.07
0.03
Smallpox
—
—
—
—
—
Acute Poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis)
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.01
0 00
Pneumonia
0.46
0.49
0.45
0.48
0.43
Notifications (corrected)—
Typhoid fever
0.00
0 00
0.00
0.01
0.01
Paratyphoid fever
0.01
0 01
0.01
0.01
0.00
Meningococcal infection
0.03
0.03
0.02
0 03
0.01
Scarlet fever
1.50
1.56
1.61
1.23
1.63
Whooring cough
3.60
3.97
3.15
3.21
5.74
Diphtheria
0.02
0.03
0.02
003
0.00
Erysipelas
0.17
0.19
0.16
0.17
0.10
Smallpox
0 00
0.00
—
—
—
Measles
8.39
8.76
8.36
6.57
5.25
Pneumonia
0.70
0.77
0 61
0.50
0.42
Acute Poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis)
Paralytic
0.13
0.12
0.11
0 08
0 03
Non-paralytic
0.05
0 05
0.06
0.05
0.00
Food Poisoning
0.17
0.16
0.14
0.25
0.04
Bates per 1,000 live births
Deaths under one year of age
29.8"
33.8
29.4
26.3
29.64
Deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis under two years of age
