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Merton and Morden 1943

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

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TableI.

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS, 1943.

(Registrar General's 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:—
Live	16.5	18.6	19.4	15.8	17.4
Still	0.51	0.63	0.61	0.45	0.39
Deaths:—
All causes	12.1	14.2	12.7	15.0	8.7
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Scarlet fever	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Whooping Cough	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.01
Diphtheria	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.02	0.01
Influenza	0.37	0.36	0.37	0.27	0.28
Smallpox	—	—	—	-	—
Measles	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01
Notifications:—
Typhoid Fever	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01
Paratyphoid fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00
Cerebro-spinal fever	0.08	0.10	0.06	0.09	0.04
Scarlet fever	3.01	3.29	3.54	3.80	4.13
Whooping Cough	2.54	2.82	2.25	2.68	3.82
Diphtheria	0.88	1.12	0.77	0.74	0.24
Erysipelas	0.31	0.35	0.27	0.42	0.16
Smallpox	-—	—	—	—	—
Measles	9.88	9.23	9.77	9.17	6.58
Pneumonia	1.34	1.62	1.16	1.27	1.24
	Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
Deaths under 1 year of age	49	58	46	58	23.5
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age	5.3	7.9	4.4	10.4	1.7
	Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still).
Maternal Mortality (excluding Abortion) Puerperal Infection No. 147	0.39		Not av ailable		0.84
Others	1.45	—			—
Total	1.84				0.84
Notifications:—
Puerperal fever	11.68	15.11	9.26	3.05	7.6
Puerperal pyrexia	11.68	15.11	9.26	15.23*	7.6
" Including Puerperal Fever.