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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1935
[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 1935 (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 | Diarrhoea & Enteritis (under two years) | Total Deaths under one year | |||
| Live Births | Stillbirths | ||||||||||||
| England and Wales | 14.7 | 0.62 | 11.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.18 | 0.52 | 5.7 | 57 |
| 121 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 14.8 | 0.68 | 11.8 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.45 | 7.9 | 62 |
| 140 Smaller Towns (Estimated Resident Populations 25,000-50,000 at Census 1931) | 14.8 | 0.64 | 11.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.17 | 0.41 | 3.8 | 55 |
| London | 13.3 | 0.52 | 11.4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.51 | 11.2 | 58 |
| 13.6 | 0.45 | 12.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0.39 | 8.8 | 59 | |
| The maternal Mortality rates are as follows '— | |||||||||||||
| Puerperal Puerperal | |||||||||||||
| Sepsis Others Total Sepsis Others Total Per 1,000 Live Births, England & Wales 1.68 2.42 4.10 Per 1,000 Total Births, England & Wales 1.61 2.32 3.93 Lambeth 1.04 1.57 2.61 Lambeth 0.72 1.09 1.81 | |||||||||||||