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Chelsea 1935

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1935

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TABLE No. 11.

Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Death-rates, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1935. (England and Wales, London, 121 Great Towns and 140 Smaller Towns.) (Provisional Figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns.)

Englandand Wales.121County Boroughs and GreatTowns including London140Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at1931 Census)London Administrative County.
Rates per 1,000 Population.
Births:—
Live14.714.814.813.3
Still0.620.680.640.52
Deaths:—
All Causes11.711.811.211.4
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers0.000.000.000.00
Smallpox
Measles0.030.040.030.00
Scarlet fever0.010.010.010.01
Whooping Cough0.040.040.030.04
Diphtheria0.080.090.070.06
Influenza0.180.160.170.11
Violence0.520.450.410.51
Notifications:—
Smallpox
Scarlet fever2.963.192.752.64
Diphtheria1.601.961.342.25
Enteric fever0.040.040.060.05
Erysipelas0.420.480.370.45
Pneumonia1.151.360.980.89
Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
Deaths under 1 year of age57625558
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age5.77.93.811.2
Maternal Mortality:—
Puerperal Sepsis1.68Not available.
Others2.42
Total4.10
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e. Live and Still).
Maternal Mortality:—
Puerperal Sepsis1.61Not available
Others2.32
Total3.93
Notifications:—
Puerperal fever3.604.552.764.32
Puerperal pyrexia9.4411.148.2511.89