London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
London County Council 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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T able 3—
| Period | Annual rate per 1,000 living | Annual mortality per 1,000 living (b) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live births | Total births (c) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Live births | Marriages | Deaths (all causes) | Meningococcal infection | Diphtheria | Enteric fever | Scarlet fever | Smallpox | Whooping-cough | Measles | Influenza | Tuberculosis | Pneumonia (all forms) | Bronchitis | Other resp. diseases | Heart disease | Cancer | Diabetes | Infants 0—1 | Diarrhoea amd enteritis 0—2 | Puerperal fever | Other child-birth | |||
| Pulmonary | Non-pul- monary | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1891-95 | 30.8 | 17.3 | 19.8 | (a) | 0.53 | 0.13 | 0.24 | 0.02 | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.41 | 1.83 | 0.80 | 1.45 | 2.45 | 0.48 | (a) | 0.80 | 007 | 156 | 23.8 | 215 | 2.22 | |
| 1896-1900 | 29.7 | 18.4 | 18.5 | (a) | 0.45 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.47 | 0.57 | 0.27 | 1.75 | 0.69 | 1.32 | 1.80 | 0.35 | (a) | 0.92 | 0.07 | 162 | 41.3 | 1.70 | 1.74 | |
| 1901-05 | 28.6 | 17.7 | 16.4 | (a) | 0.20 | 0.08 | Oil | 0.07 | 0.36 | 0.45 | 0.17 | 1.58 | 0.57 | 1.46 | 1.41 | 0.26 | 1.31 | 1.01 | 0.08 | 139 | 30.4 | 1.64 | 1.52 | |
| 1906-10 | 26.5 | 17.4 | 14.9 | (a) | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.29 | 0.42 | 0.22 | 1.39 | 0.48 | 1.49 | 1.22 | 0.22 | 1.26 | 1.11 | 0.10 | 114 | 23.8 | 1.46 | 1.47 | |
| 1911-15 | 24.0 | 20.0 | 14.8 | 0.02 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.22 | 0.43 | 0.16 | 1.39 | 0.39 | 1.33 | 1.29 | 0.21 | 1.54 | 1.16 | 0.11 | 108 | 28.0 | 1.40 | 1.57 | |
| 1916-20 | 20.0 | 20.1 | 15.1 | 0.04 | 0.17 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.28 | 1.01 | 1.43 | 0.34 | 1.38 | 1.30 | 0.19 | 1.71 | 1.28 | 0.09 | 92 | 15.4 | 1.64 | 1.72 | |
| 1921-25 | 19.9 | 17.9 | 12.3 | 0.01 | 0.17 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.32 | 1.01 | 0.19 | 1.14 | 0.97 | 0.16 | 1.66 | 1.38 | 0.10 | 71 | 11.7 | 1.36 | 1.63 | |
| 1926-30 | 16.2 | 18.6 | 12.3 | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 000 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.30 | 0.90 | 0.14 | 1.00 | 0.72 | 0.16 | 2.29 | 1.52 | 0.12 | 64 | 10.2 | 1.60 | i.63 | |
| 1931-35 | 13.8 | 19.5 | 12.1 | 0.03 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.26 | 0.79 | 0.11 | 0.85 | 0.47 | 0.14 | 2.99 | 1.66 | 0.14 | 63 | 11.6 | 0.99 | 1.38 | |
| 1936-40 | 13.7 | 25.4 | 13.4 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.01 | - | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.19 | 0.72 | 0.09 | 0.83 | 0.67 | 0.13 | 3.67 | 1.87 | 0.16 | 56 | 10.9 | 0.49 | to 0.97 | |
| 1941-45 | 15.4 | 23.3 | 16.0 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.14 | 0.90 | 0.11 | 0.91 | 1.14 | 0.16 | 3.99 | 2.38 | 0.11 | 48 | 8.0 | 0.28 | 1.08 | |
| 1946-50 | 18.6 | 22.4 | 11.8 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.08 | 0.53 | 0.06 | 0.62 | 0.87 | 0.13 | 3.31 | 2.10 | 0.07 | 32 | 3.0 | 0.08 | 0.53 | |
| 1951 | 15.6 | 20.6 | 12.6 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.24 | 0.34 | 0.04 | 0.64 | 1.14 | 0.12 | 3.87 | 2.27 | 0.09 | 25 | 0.8 | 0.06 | 0.39 | |
| 1952 | 15.3 | 19.9 | 12.0 | 0-01 | 0-00 | - | 0.00 | - | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.28 | 0.03 | 0.61 | 1.09 | 0.12 | 3.55 | 2.30 | 0.08 | 23 | 0.8 | 0.04 | 0.63 | |
(a) Comparable figures are not available for this period.
(b) Death-rates from 1939 to 1949 relate to the civilian population only. Death-rates for tuberculosis are expressed per 1,000 total population in Table 10.
(c) The rates are per 1,000 total births from 1928 when still births were first registered. Prior to this year the rates are per 1,000 live births, and are estimated to be
approx. 0.05 in excess of the rate per 1,000 total births. (d) From 1931 deaths from abortion are excluded.