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Bexley 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]

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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS

England and Wales.Borough of Bexley.
Rates per 1,000 Home Population.
Birtht—
Live15.613.2
Still10.370.28
(23.0(a)20.8(a)
Deaths—
All Causes11.79.4
Typhoid and Paratyphoid0.00-
Whooping Cough0.00-
Diphtheria0.00-
Tuberculosis0.120.11
Influenza0.060.01
Smallpox--
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis)0.00-
Pneumonia0.520.44
Notifications (corrected)
Typhoid Fever0.00-
Paratyphoid Fever0.010.20
Meningococcal Infection0.03-
Scarlet Fever0.740.91
Whooping Cough2.071.32
Diphtheria0.00-
Erysipelas0.100.10
Smallpox--
Measles3.591.39
Pneumonia0.570.26
Acute Poliomyelitis (Including Polioencephalitis)
Paralytic0.040.01
Non-Paralytic0.030.03
Food Poisoning0.250.08
Puerperal Pyrexia16.31(a)11.65(a)
Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
Deaths
All causes under one year of age23.8(b)24.6
Enteritis and Diarrhœa under two years of age0.51Nil

(a) Per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births.
(b) Per 1,000 related live births.
A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths.
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