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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Birth-rates, Civilian Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality and Case rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1948 Provisional Figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns
England and Wales | 126 C.Bs. and GreatTowns including London | 148 Smaller Towns Resident Population, 25,000-50,000 at 1931 census | London Administrative County | Lambeth | |
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* Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population : — | |||||
Live Births | 17.9† | 20.0 | 19.2 | 20.1 | 19.0 |
Still Births | 0.42† | 0.52 | 0.43 | 0.39 | 0.34 |
Deaths: | |||||
All Causes | 10.8† | 11.6 | 10.7 | 11.6 | 11.07 |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — |
Pneumonia | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.54 | 0.51 |
Whooping Cough | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Influenza | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.06 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | - |
Tuberculosis | 0.51 | 0.59 | 0.46 | 0.63 | 0.56 |
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | - |
Rates per 1,000 Live Births:— | |||||
Deaths under 1 year of age | 341 | 39 | 32 | 31 | 27 |
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age | 3.3 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 4 9 |
* A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths,
† Rates per 1,000 total population.
‡ Per 1,000 related births.