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

Merton and Morden 1948

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

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TABLE I.

COMPARATIVE STATISTICS, 1948.

(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 Administrative County	Merton and Morden
Births: Live Still Deaths: All causes Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers Whooping Cough Diphtheria Tuberculosis Influenza Smallpox Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis neumonia Notifications: (Corrected) Typhoid Fever Paratyphoid Fever Cerebro-spinal Fever Scarlet Fever Whooping Cough Diphtheria Erysipelas Smallpox Measles Pneumonia Acute Poliomyelitis Acute Polioencephalitis	Rates per 1,000 Population.
	17.9* 0.42* 10 8* 0.00 0.02 0 00 051 0 03 0.01 0.41 0.01 0.01 0 03 1.73 3 42 0 08 0.21 9.34 0.73 0.04 0 00	20.0 0.52 11.6 0 00 0 02 0 00 0 59 0 03 0.01 0.38 0.00 0.01 0 03 1.90 3.51 0 10 0.23 9.75 0.84 0.05 0.00	192 0.43 10.7 0.00 0 02 0.00 0.46 0 04 0.01 0.36 0.01 0.01 0.02 1.82 3 31 0 09 0.21 8 84 0 60 0 04 0 00	20.1 0.39 11.6 000 001 001 0.63 0 02 0 00 0.54 0.00 0.01 0 03 1 37 3 13 0.10 0.22 9 17 0 57 0 04 0.00	14.45 0.27 7.6 0.00 001 0.00 0.46 0 02 0.00 0.19 0.00 0 00 0 00 1 48 5 02 0 03 0 19 13.94 0 53 0.10 0.00
Deaths: All causes under 1 year of age Enteritis and Diarrhoea under 2 years of age	Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
	34† 3.3	39 45	32 2.1	31 2.4	24.8 0.92
	Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still).
Notifications: (Corrected) Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia	6.89	8.90	4.71	7.34‡	1.80

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* Rates per 1,000 Total Population.
t Per 1,000 Related Births.
‡ Puerperal Fever Alone— London 0.61.
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