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 Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE F.
Birth-rate, death-rate, and analysis of mortality during the year 1934(provisional figures).
Rate
per 1,000
Total
Population
Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Population
Rate per
1,000 Births
All
Causes
Enteric
Fever
Smallpox
Measles
Scarlet
Fever
Whooping
Cough
Diphtheria
Influenza
Violence
Diarrhœa
& Enteritis
(under
two years)
Total Deaths
under
one year
Live
Births
Stillbirths
England and Wales
14.8
0.62
11.8
0.00
0.00
0.09
0.02
0.05
0.10
0.14
0.54
5.5
59
121 County Boroughs and
Great Towns, including
London
14.7
0.66
11.8
0.00
0.00
0.12
0.02
0.06
0.11
0.12
0.47
7.4
63
135 Smaller Towns (Estimated
Resident Populations
25,000-50,000 at
Census 1931)
15.0
0.67
11.3
0.00
0.00
0.07
0.02
0.04
0.09
0.14
0.42
3.6
53
London
13.2
0.50
11.9
0.00
0.00
0.20
0.02
0.07
0.11
0.12
0.56
12.6
67
Lambeth
14.2
0.40
12.8
0.00
0.00
0.23
0.01
0.04
0.15
0.14
0.44
9.4
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The maternal Mortality rates are as follows •—
Puerperal
Puerperal
Sepsis
Others
Total
Sepsis
Others
Total
Per 1,000 Live Births, England & Wales
2.03
2.57
4.60
Per 1,000 Total Births, England & Wales
1.95
2.46
4.41
Lambeth
1.49
0.99
2.48
Lambeth
1.03
0.69
1.72