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 London County Council]
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Year | Marriages registered | Live births (allocated) | Civilian deaths | |||
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No. | Rate* | No. | Rate | No. | Rate |
London | England and Wales |
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London | England and Wales |
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Year | Live births | Deaths | Notifications | ||||||
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Puerperal sepsis | Other childbirth | Puerperal fever | Puerperal pyrexia |
Tuberculosis deaths Pulmonary | per 1,000 living Non-pulmonary |
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Year | Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary |
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Metropolitan boroughs arranged in topographical order | Estimated civilian population, 1945 | Live births | Deaths | Infant mortality (per 1,000 live births) | Measles | Scarlet fever | Diphtheria | Whooping cough | Typhoid fever | Diarrhœa and enteritis age 0.2 (per 1,000 lire births) | Pulmonary tuberculosis | Pneumonia | Other resp. dis. | Cancer | Maternal mortality (per 1,000 live births) | Notifications of infectious disease (52 weeks) | |||||||
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Scarlet fever | Diphtheria | Typhoid fever | Erysipelas | Acute pneu monja | Meas les | Measles | Whoop ing cough |
Period | Annua) rate per 1,000 living | Annual mortality per 1,000 living | Annual mortality pet 1,000 live births | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Live births | Marriages | Deaths (all causes) | Cerebrospinal fever | Diphtheria | Enteric fever | Scarlet fever | Smallpox | Whooping-cough | Measles | Influenza | Tuberculosis | Pneumonia (all forms) | Bronchitis | Other respdiseases | Heart disease | Cancer | Diabetes | Infants 0-1 | Diarrhoea and enteritis 0-2 | Puerperal fever | Other acc. of ch. birth | ||
Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary |
Cause | Sex | All ages | 0- | 1- | 5- | 15- | 45- | 65 + |
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Cause | Sex | All ages | 0- | 1- | 5- | 15- | 45- | 65+ |
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Year | 0-4 | 5-14 | 15-44 | 45-64 | 65 | All ages |
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Cause of death | Age at death | Total | Bates per 1,000 live births | |||||||||
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Under 1 day | 1 to 7 days | 1 to 4 wks. | 4 weeks to 1 year | No. | Males | Fe-males | Total | Male | Female |
Casue of death | 1911 to 1914 | 1915 to 1918 | 1919 to 1922 | 1923 to 1926 | 1927 to 1930 | 1931 to 1934 | 1935 to 1938 | 1939 to 1942 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 |
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1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 |
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Metropolitan boroughs arranged in topographical order | Childbirth deaths (a) per 1,000 live-births | Number or deaths(b) in childbirth 1945 | |||||||
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1931-40 | 1941-45 | ||||||||
Puerperal fever | Other causes | Total | Puerperal fever | Other causes | Total | Puerperal fever | Other causes | Total |
Year | Measles | Whooping-cough | Scarlet fever | Diphtheria | Diarrhœa & enteritis under 2 | |||||
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London | E. & W. | London | E. & W. | London | E. & W. | London | E. & W. | London | E. & W. |
Year | Anthrax | Cerebrospinal fever | Continued fever | Diphtheria | Dysentery | Encephalitis lethargica | Enteric fever | Erysipelas | Malaria | Measles | Ophthalmia neonatorum | Pneumonia | Polioencephalitis | Poliomyelitis | Puerperal fever | Puerperal pyrexia | Scabies | Scarlet fever | Smallpox | Typhus | Whooping-cough | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate |
Form of tuberculosis notified | Sex | Number of formal primary notifications of new cases of tuberculosis | Total all ages | Total notifications | ||||||||||
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0- | 1- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 26- | 35- | 46- | 65- | 65+ |
Form of tuberculosis | Sex | New cases of tuberculosis coming to knowledge otherwise than by formal notification | |||||||||||
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0- | 1- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65 + | Total |
Source of information | Number of cases | ||
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Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary |
1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 |
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Year | New cases | Total venereal cases | Total non-venereal cases | |||||||||||
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Syphilis | S. Chancre | Gonorrhoea | ||||||||||||
M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. |
1943 | 1944 | 1945 | ||||
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M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. |
Classification | Certified blind | Not blind | Grand total | ||||
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Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | Total |
Year | For the first period of treatment | For further treatment | Total | ||||||
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Ex-Service | Civilian adults | Children | Ex- Service | Civilian adults | Children | ||||
Male | Female | Male | Female |
Adults | Children | |||||
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1945 | 1944 | 1938 | 1945 | 1944 | 1938 |
Number | Per cent. of miniatures |
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Number | Per cent,. of miniatures |
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1938 | 1944 | 1945$ |
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Number of parties | Children in residence | Accommodation |
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Number of parties | Children in residence | Accommodation |
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Age group | 1945 | 1944 |
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1945 | 1944 | 1943 | 1938 |
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(a) | 1945 | 1944 | 1943 | 1942 | 1938 |
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Type of school | No. in attendance on selected day | Number who had dinner | Number who had milk | ||||
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1/3pint | 2/3pint | ||||||
Free | Paying | Free | Paying | Free | Paying |
Meals | Milk |
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Type of school | No. in attendance on selected day | Number who had dinner | Number who had milk | ||||
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1/3pint | 2/3pint | ||||||
Free | Payinq | Free | Paying | Free | Paying |
Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts | Uncertified senile patients | M.D. Acts | Total | ||||
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Certified | Voluntary | Temporary | Lunacy Acts Sections 24 &25 |
In-Patients | Male | Female | Children | Total |
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