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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Edmonton 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton, UDC]
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| Acute and Chronic Nephritis | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| Puerperal Sepsis | — | 1 | 1 |
| Other accidents and diseases of pregnancy and parturition — | 1 | 1 | |
| Congenital debility and malformation, premature birth | 31 | 14 | 45 |
| Suicide | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| Other deaths from violence | 14 | 7 | 21 |
| Other defined diseases | 65 | 60 | 125 |
| Causes ill-defined or unknown | — | 1 | 1 |
| All causes | 346 | 305 | 651 |
| Annual death-rate per 1,000 population. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Influenza. | |
| England and Wales | 11.6 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.22 |
| London | 11.2 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0 08 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 0.13 | 0.17 |
| Edmonton | 9.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.09 | 0.13 |
| Rate per 1,000 births. | ||||||||
| Birth-rate per 1,000 of population. | Diarrhœa, etc under 2 years | Total deaths under 1 year. | ||||||
| England and Wales | 19.7 | 7.7 | 69 | |||||
| London | 20.2 | 10.2 | 60 | |||||
| Edmonton | 22.2 | 10.5 | 55 | |||||