Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1953
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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Year | Whole Borough | London | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
No. of Deaths | Rate per 1,000 Births | No. of Deaths | Rate per 1,000 Births | |
1943 | 49 | 53 | 2,284 | 51 |
1944 | 56 | 66 | 2,250 | 51 |
1945 | 44 | 52 | 2,011 | 44 |
1946 | 53 | 39 | 2,527 | 38 |
1947 | 50 | 33 | 2,454 | 34 |
1948 | 20 | 16 | 1,869 | 31 |
1949 | 33 | 29 | 1,517 | 27 |
1950 | 23 | 20 | 1,372 | 26 |
1951 | 27 | 25 | 1,333 | 25 |
1952 | 20 | 20 | 1,189 | 23 |
Average for years 1943-1952 | 37 | 35 | 1,881 | 35 |
1953 | 27 | 27 | 1,216 | 24 |
TUBERCULOSIS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. In the following Table will be found particulars of deaths from Tuberculosis of the Respiratory System since the year 1943.
Sub-District | Bermondsey | Rotherhithe | St. Olave | Whole Borough | London | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | No. | No. | No. | No. | Rate | No. | Rate |
1943 | 30 | 15 | 4 | 49 | 1.08 | 2204 | 0.88 |
1944 | 30 | 16 | 1 | 47 | 1.05 | 2073 | 0.84 |
1945 | 28 | 15 | 2 | 45 | 0.96 | 2033 | 0.78 |
1946 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 32 | 0.57 | 1940 | 0.62 |
1947 | 26 | 21 | 5 | 52 | 0.88 | 2044 | 0.62 |
1948 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 45 | 0.74 | 1900 | 0.57 |
1949 | 32 | 8 | 1 | 41 | 0.68 | 1585 | 0.47 |
1950 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 23 | 0.38 | 1225 | 0.36 |
1951 | 16 | 5 | – | 21 | 0.35 | 1154 | 0.34 |
1952 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 0.35 | 933 | 0.28 |
Averages for years 1943-1952 | 24 | 11 | 2 | 37 | 0.70 | 1709 | 0.58 |
1953 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 0.24 | 690 | 0.21 |