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Hampstead 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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several populations, and fail as true comparative mortality indexes in
that their variations are not due to mortality alone, but arise also from
differences in their population constitution, the two elements being
combined in indistinguishable proportions.
The Registrar General has prepared Comparability Factors for
adjusting local death rates, and when the Crude Death Rate of an
Area is multiplied by the appropriate Factor, an " Adjusted Death
Rate " is obtained which is comparable with the Crude Death Rate of
the country as a whole, or with the "Adjusted Death Rate" of any
other area.
Deaths from puerperal causes :—
| Deaths. | Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Puerperal sepsis | 1 | 1 | |
| Other puerperal causes | 2 | 2 | |
| Total | 3 | 3 | |
| Death Rate of Infants under one year of age :— | |||
| All infants per 1,000 live births | 54 | ||
| Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 38 | ||
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 202 | ||
| Deaths from Cancer (all ages) | 169 | ||
| „ Measles (all ages) | — | ||
| „ Whooping Cough (all ages) | 2 | ||
| „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 13 | ||
Information as to the incidence of infectious disease will be found
in the Section of the Report relating to that subject. The Death Rate
calculated for each Ward is shown on page 17; and the Ward Birth
Rates and Infant Death Rates are set out on page 39.
Meteorology.
Through the kindness of E. L. Hawke, Esq., M.A., F.R.A.S.,
Secretary of the Royal Meteorological Society, and Hon. Meteorologist
to the Hampstead Scientific Society, 1 am able to submit his report on
the weather of the year 1937 in Hampstead, based on records kept at
the Hampstead Scientific Society's Observatory on the summit of the
Heath, near the Whitestone Pond, established in 1909.