Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1953 page 9

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Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1953

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BIRTH RATES, DEATH RATES, ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY

AND CASE RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE YEAR 1953

(Provisional figures based an Quarterly Returns)

	England and Wales	160 County Boroughs & Great Towns (including London)	160 smaller Towns (ResidentPopulation 25,000 - 50,000at 1951 Census)	London Administrative County
					Rates per 1,000 Home Population
					Births
					Live Births	15.5	17.0	15.7	17.5
					Still Births	( 0.35	0.43	0.34	0.38
	( 22.4(a)	24.8(a)	21o4(a)	21.0(a)
Deaths
All Causes	11.4	12.2	11.3	12.5
Typhoid and Paratyphoid	0.00	0.00	-	-
Whooping Cough	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00
Diphtheria	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
Tuberculosis	0.20	0.24	0.19	0.24
Influenza	0.16	0.15	0.17	0.15
Smallpox	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
Acute Poliomyelitis (in-cluding polioencephalitis)	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Pneumonia	0.55	0.59	0.52	0.64
Notifications (Corrected)
Typhoid Fewer	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01
Paratyphoid Fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Meningococcal infection	0.03	0.04,	0.03	0.03
Scarlet Fever	1.39	1.50	1.44	1.02
Whooping Cough	3.58	3.72	3.38	3.30
Diphtheria	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00
Erysipelas	0.14	0.14	0.13	0.12
Smallpox	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Msasles	12.36	11.27	12.32	8.09
Pneumonia	0.84	0.92	0.76	0.73
Acute policmyelitis (in-cluding Polioencephlitis Paralytic	0.07	0.06	0.06	0.07
Non-paralytic	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.03
Food poisoning	0.24	0.25	0.24	0.38
Puerperal pyrexia	18.23(a)	24.33(a)	12.46(a)	28.61(a)
Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Deaths
All causes under 1 yearof age	26.8(b)	30.8	24.3	24.8
Enteritis and diarrhoea under 2 years of age	1.1	1.3	0.9	1.1

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(a) Per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births.
(b) Per 1,000 related live birth.