[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden] page 14

Merton and Morden 1940

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

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TABLE I.

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS, 1940.

(R.G.'s Provisional Figures with Corresponding Figures for Merton

and Morden added).

	England and Wales.	126 County Boro's and Great Towns including London.	148 Smaller Towns (Residential Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at Census).	London Adminis- tive County.	Merton and Morden.
	Rates per 1,000 Population.
Births:—	1940	1940	1940	1940	1940
Live	14.6	16.0	15.7	13.7	14.17
Still	0.55	0.64	0.55	0.44	0.42
Deaths:—
All causes	14.3	15.8	12.8	17.8	10.4
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Scarelt fever	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Whooping Cough	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.00	—
Diphtheria	0.06	0.07	0.05	0.01	0.01
Influenza	0.32	0.29	0.30	0.18	0.20
Smallpox	—	—	—	—	—
Measles	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01
Notifications:—
Enteric	0.07	0.06	0.10	0.06	0.04
Paratyphoid fever
Cerebro-spinal fever	0.32	0.33	0.29	0.28	0.12
Scarlet fever	1.63	1.53	1.57	0.82	1.33
Whooping Cough	1.34	1.29	1.35	0.22	1.56
Diphtheria	1.16	1.29	1.21	0.61	0.29
Erysipelas	0.33	0.36	0.30	0.35	0.18
Smallpox	0.00	—	—	—	—
Measles	10.24	9.23	0.00	1.78	6.55
Pneumonia	1.20	1.37	1.00	0.87	0.92
	Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
Deaths under 1 year of age	55	61	54	50	32
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age	4.6	5.9	4.4	5.8	2.1
	Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still).
Maternal Mortaltiy (excluding Abortion)
Puerperal Infection No. 147	0.52	—			0.99
Others	1.64	—	Not available		1.03
Total	2.16				2.02
Notifications:—
Puerperal fever	11.96	13.90	9.73	3.34	9.3
Puerperal pyrexia	11.96	13.90	9.73	13.30	9.3