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 Chislehurst]
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Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Death-rates, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1937:—
England and Wales | 125 County Boro's. and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000, 1931 Census) | London Administrative County | Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District | |
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Rates per 1,000 Population | |||||
BIRTHS: | |||||
Live | 14.9 | 14.9 | 15.3 | 13.3 | 16.9 |
Still | 0.60 | 0.67 | 0.64 | 0.54 | 0.47 |
DEATHS: | |||||
All Causes | 12.4 | 12.5 | 11.9 | 12.3 | 8,7 |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
Smallpox | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Measles | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 | ... | |
Scarlet Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0,01 |
Whooping Cough | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.01 |
Diphtheria | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Influenza | 0.45 | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0 38 | 0.72 |
Violence | 0.54 | 0.45 | 0.42 | 0.51 | 5.62 |
NOTIFICATIONS: | |||||
Smallpox | 000 | ... | 0.00 | ... | ... |
Scarlet Fever | 2.33 | 2.56 | 2.42 | 2.09 | 3.42 |
Diphtheria | 1.49 | 1.81 | 1.38 | 1.93 | 0.93 |
Enteric Fever | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.11 |
Erysipelas | 0.37 | 0.43 | 0.34 | 0.44 | 0.23 |
Pneumonia | 1.3 | 1.58 | 1.20 | 0.18 | 0.83 |
Rates per 1,000 Live Births | |||||
Deaths under one year of age | 58 | 62 | 55 | 60 | 47 |
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under two years of age | 5.8 | 7.9 | 3.2 | 12.0 | 5.C2 |
MATERNAL MORTALITY: | |||||
Puerperal Sepsis | 0.97 | Not available. | 1.00 | ||
Others | 2.26 | 6.03 | |||
Total ............ | 3.23 | 7.03 | |||
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e. Live and Still | |||||
MATERNAL MORTALITY: | |||||
Puerperal Sepsis | 0.94 | Not available. | 0.975 | ||
Others | 2.17 | 5.865 | |||
Total | 3.11 | 6.84 | |||
NOTIFICATIONS: | |||||
Puerperal Fever | 13.93 | 17.59 | 11.52 | 4.15 | 3.91 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 14.34 | 6,84 |