Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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TABLE 2 Birth Rates, Civilian Death Rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and case Rates for Certain Infectious Diseases in the Year 1949 (Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns)
England and Wales | 126 G.B.'s and great towns inc. London | 148 smaller towns Resident Population 25,000— 50,000 1931 | London Administrative County | |
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Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population | ||||
Births:— | ||||
Live births | 16.7 | 18.7 | 18.0 | 18.5 |
Still births | 0.39 | 0.47 | 0.40 | 0.37 |
Deaths :— | ||||
All causes | 11.7 | 12.5 | 11.6 | 12.2 |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Tuberculosis | 0.45 | 0.52 | 0.42 | 0.52 |
Influenza | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.11 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — |
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
Pneumonia | 0.51 | 0.56 | 0.49 | 0.59 |
Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population | ||||
Notifications (Corrected):— | ||||
Typhoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Paratyphoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Cerebro-spinal Fever | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
Scarlet Fever | 1.63 | 1.72 | 1.83 | 1.46 |
Whooping Cough | 2.39 | 2.44 | 2.39 | 1.70 |
Diphtheria | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.07 |
Erysipelas | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.17 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Measles | 8.95 | 8.91 | 9.18 | 8.54 |
Pneumonia | 0.80 | 0.91 | 0.65 | 0.55 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.18 |
Acute Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
Food Poisoning | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.19 |
Rates per 1,000 live births. | ||||
Deaths:— | ||||
All causes under one year of age | 32 | 37 | 30 | 29 |
Enteritis and Diarrhœa under two years of age | 3.0 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 1.7 |
Rates per 1,000 total (Live and Still) Births | ||||
Notifications (Corrected):— | ||||
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia | 6.31 | 8.14 | 5.30 | 6.82 |