[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden] page 13

Merton and Morden 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden]

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TABLE I.

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS, 1937.

(R.G.'s Provisional Figures with Corresponding Figures for Merton and Morden added).

	England and Wales	125 County Boro's and Great Towns including London	148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census	London Administrative County	Merton and Morden
	Rates per 1,030 Population
Mirths:— Live	14.9	14.9	15.3	13.3	12.3
Still	0.60	0.67	0.64	0.54	0.36
Deaths:— All causes	12.4	12.5	11.9	12.3 Crude	7.4
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	0.00	0.01	0.00	Comp 0.00	8.9
Smallpox	-	-	-	-	-
Measles	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.01	-
Scarlet fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	-
Whooping Cough	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.06	0.03
Diphtheria	0.07	0.08	0.05	0.05	0.06
Influenza	0.45	0.30	0.42	0.38	0.25
Violence	0.54	0.45	0.42	0.51	0.30
Notifications:— Smallpox	0.00	-	0.00	-	-
Scarlet fever	2.33	2.56	2.42	2.09	1.06
Diphtheria	1.40	1.81	1.38	1.93	0.33
Enteric fever	0.05	0.06	0.04	0.05	0.01
Erysipelas	0.37	0.43	0.34	0.44	0.15
Pneumonia	1.36	1.58	1.20	1.18	1.35
Rates per l.000) Live Births
Deaths under 1 year of age	58	62	55	60	39
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age	5.8	7.9	3.2	12.0	_
Maternal Mortality:— Puerperal Sepsis	0.97	Not Available			1.23
Others	2.26				1.23
Total	3.23				2.46
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still)
Maternal Mortality:— Puerperal Sepsis	0.94	Not Available			1.19
Others	2.17				1.19
Total	3.11				2.38
Notifications:— Puerperal fever	13.93	17.59	11.52	4.15	1.19
Puerperal pyrexia	13.93	17.59	11.52	14.34	2.38