Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1938 page 19

Chelsea 1938

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1938

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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 1938.

England and Wales, London, 126 Great Towns and 148 Smaller Towns.

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(Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns.)

	England and Wales.	126 County Boro's and Great Towns including London.	148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census).	London Administrative County.

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Rates per 1,000 Population.

Births:—
Live	15.1	15.0	15.4	13.4
Still	0.60	0.65	0.60	0.48
Deaths:—
All Causes	11.6	11.7	11.0	11.4
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Smallpox	0.00	——	0.00	-
Measles	0.04	0.05	0.03	0.06
Scarlet fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Whooping Cough	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.03
Diphtheria	0.07	0.07	0.06	0.05
Influenza	0.11	0.10	0.11	0.06
Notifications:—
Smallpox	0. 00	0.00	0.00	-
Scarlet fever	2.41	2.60	2.58	2.05
Diphtheria	1.58	1.85	1.53	1.90
Enteric fever	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.05
Erysipelas	0.40	0.46	0.39	0.46
Pneumonia	1.10	1.28	0.98	0.98

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Rates per 1,000 Live Births.

Deaths under 1 year of age	53	57	51	57
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age	5.5	7.8	3.6	13.1
Maternal Mortality:—
Puerperal Sepsis	0.89	Not available.
Others	2.19
Total	3.08

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Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still).