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Chislehurst 1937

[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 Wales125 County Boro's. and Great Towns including London148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000, 1931 Census)London Administrative CountyChislehurst and Sidcup Urban District
Rates per 1,000 Population
BIRTHS:
Live14.914.915.313.316.9
Still0.600.670.640.540.47
DEATHS:
All Causes12.412.511.912.38,7
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers0.000.010.000.000.03
Smallpox...............
Measles0.020.030.020.01...
Scarlet Fever0.010.010.010.010,01
Whooping Cough0.040.040.030.060.01
Diphtheria0.070.080.050.050.05
Influenza0.450.390.420 380.72
Violence0.540.450.420.515.62
NOTIFICATIONS:
Smallpox000...0.00......
Scarlet Fever2.332.562.422.093.42
Diphtheria1.491.811.381.930.93
Enteric Fever0.050.060.040.050.11
Erysipelas0.370.430.340.440.23
Pneumonia1.31.581.200.180.83
Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Deaths under one year of age5862556047
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under two years of age5.87.93.212.05.C2
MATERNAL MORTALITY:
Puerperal Sepsis0.97Not available.1.00
Others2.266.03
Total ............3.237.03
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e. Live and Still
MATERNAL MORTALITY:
Puerperal Sepsis0.94Not available.0.975
Others2.175.865
Total3.116.84
NOTIFICATIONS:
Puerperal Fever13.9317.5911.524.153.91
Puerperal Pyrexia14.346,84