London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

London County Council 1957

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Figure 2—WEEKLY REGISTERED DEATHS—LONDON (A.C.),
1952-6 AND 1957
(FIVE-WEEK MOVING AVERAGE)
week number
* Calculated by taking the number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of five previous years, eliminating the highest
and lowest figures and then computing a five-week moving average of the arithmetic means of the remaining three weekly
figures.
8