Table: TABLE I.COMPARATIVE STATISTICS, 1944.(Registrar General's Figures with Corresponding Figures for Merton and Morden added).
TABLE I.
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS, 1944.
(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. |
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| Rates per 1,000 Population. |
Births:— | | | | | |
Live | 17.6 | 20.3 | 20.9 | 15.0 | 18.3 |
Still | 0.50 | 0.64 | 0.61 | 0.42 | 0.41 |
Deaths:— | | | | | |
All causes | 11.6 | 13.7 | 12.4 | 15.7 | 10.006 |
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 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.05 |
Diphtheria | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
Influenza | 0.12 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0.06 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | — | — | — | — |
Measles | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
Notifications:— | | | | | |
Typhoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Cerebro-spinal fever | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.00 |
Scarlet fever | 2.40 | 2.41 | 2.67 | 1.50 | 3.68 |
Whooping Cough | 2.49 | 2.49 | 2.29 | 2.90 | 3.18 |
Diphtheria | 0.58 | 0.67 | 0.69 | 0.31 | 0.12 |
Erysipelas | 0.29 | 0,32 | 0.28 | 0.37 | 0.35 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Measles | 4.16 | 4.51 | 3.94 | 2.98 | 4.01 |
Pneumonia | 0.97 | 1.13 | 0.82 | 0.93 | 0.74 |
| Rates per 1,000 Live Births. |
Deaths under 1 year of age | 46 | 52 | 44 | 61 | 28.7 |
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 4.8 | 7.3 | 4.4 | 10.1 | 3.4 |
| Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still). |
Notifications:— | | | | | |
Puerperal fever | | | | 3.61 | |
Puerperal pyrexia | 10.34 | 13.13 | 9.25 | 14.14* | 5.9 |
* Including Puerperal Fever.
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