Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1952 page 8

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1952

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Table: BIRTH RATES, DEATH RATES, ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY AND CASE-RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE YEAR 1952 (Provisional figures based on Quarterly Returns)

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BIRTH RATES, DEATH RATES, ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY AND CASE-RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE YEAR 1952 (Provisional figures based on Quarterly Returns)

	England and Wales	160 County Boroughs and Great Towns (including London)	160 smaller Towns (Resident Population 25,000-50,000 at 1951 Census)	London Administrative County
		Rates per 1,000 Home Population
Births
	15.3	16.9	15.5	17.6
Still births	0,35	0.43	0.36	0.34
	22.6(a)	24.6(a)	23.0(a)	19.2(a)
Deaths
A11 Causes	11.3	12.1	11.2	12.6
Typhoid and paratyphoid	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
Whooping cough	'0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Diphtheria	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	0.24	0.28	0.22	0.31
	0.04.	0.04	0.04	0.05
Smallpox	0.00	-	-	-
Acute poliomyelitis (in
cluding polioencephalitis]	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.01
Pneumonia	0.47	0.52	0.43	0.58
Notifications (Corrected)
Typhoid fever	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Paratyphoid fever .	0..02	0.02	0.03	0.01
Meningococcal infection	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02
Scarlet fever	1.53	1.75	1.58	1.56
Whooping cough	2.61	2.7 4	2.57	1.66
	0.01	0,01	0.03	0.01
Erysipelas	0.14	0.15	0.12	0.14
	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
	8.86	10.11	8.49	9.23
Pneumonia	0.72	0.80	0.62	0.57
Acute poliomyelitis				1
(including polio
encephalitis)
Paralytic	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06
Non-paralytic	0.03	0.03	0.02,	0.03
Food poisoning	0.13	0.16	0.11	0.18
Puerperal pyrexia	17.87(a)	23.94(a)	10.22(a)	30.77(a)
Deaths		Rates per 1,000 Live Births
All causes under 1 year
of age	27.6(b)	31.2	25.8	23.8
Enteritis and diarrhoea
under 2 years of ase	1.1	1.3	0.5	0.7
(a) Per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births. (b) Per IjOOO related live births.