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Chelsea 1942
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1942
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TABLE No. 11.
Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, England and Wales, Maternal Death-rates and Case-rates for certain London, 126 Great Infectious Diseases in the year 1942 Towns and 148 Smaller
Towns.
(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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIVILIAN Rates per 1,000 Population. | ||||
| Births:— Live | 15.8 | 14.3 | 18.4 | 14.0 |
| Still | 0.54 | 0.66 | 0.62 | 0.48 |
| Deaths:— | ||||
| All Causes | 11.6 | 13.3 | 12.1 | 13.0 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| SmallpoX | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Scarlet fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Whooping Cough ... | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.04 |
| Diphtheria | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| Influenza | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.04 |
| NOTIFICATIONS - | ||||
| TYPHOID FEVER | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
| PARA-TYPHOID | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| C.S.F | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.15 |
| SCARLET FEVER | 2. 19 | 2.49 | 2.34 | 1.86 |
| WHOOPING COUGH | 1.43 | 1.94 | 1.58 | 2.42 0.46 |
| DIPHTHERIA | 1.05 | 1.35 | 0.91 | |
| ERYSIPELAS | 0.30 | 0.36 | 0.26 | 0.43 |
| SMALLPOX | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | 0.00 |
| MEASLES | 4.46 | 9.24 | 4.39 | 8.62 |
| PNEUMONIA | 1.04 | 1.30 | 0.94 | 0.94 |
| Rates per 1,000 Live Births. | ||||
| Deaths under 1 year of age | 49 | 59 | 46 | 60 |
| Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 52 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 8.6 |
| Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still). | ||||
| Maternal Mortality:— | Not avail able. | |||
| Puerperal Sepsis | 0.42 | |||
| Others | 1.59 | |||
| Total | 2.01 | |||
| Notifications :— Puerperal fever Puerperal pyrexia | 12.61 | 15.94 | 10.80 | 3.10 14.69 |
INCLUDING PUERPERAL FEVER