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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for certain Infectious Diseases in the Year 1939.
England and Wales | 126 County Boro's. and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000, 1931 Census | London Administrative County | Chislehur^t and Sidcup Urban District | |
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Rates per 1,000 Population | |||||
BIRTHS: | |||||
Live | 15.0 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 12.3 | 18.0 |
Still | 0.59 | 0.59 | 0.57 | 0.44 | 0.09 |
DEATHS: | |||||
All Causes | 12.1 | 12.0 | 11.2 | 11.9 | 9.5 |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | ||||
Measles | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Scarlet Fever | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
Whooping Cough | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Diphtheria | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.06 |
Influenza | 0.21 | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.18 | 1.23 |
NOTIFICATIONS: | |||||
Smallpox | 0.00 | ||||
Scarlet Fever | 1.89 | 1.96 | 1.78 | 1.53 | 3.34 |
Diphtheria | 1.14 | 1.21 | 1.16 | 1.98 | 0.77 |
Enteric Fever | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0 04 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Erysipelas | 0.34 | 0.40 | 0.31 | 0.37 | 0.07 |
Pneumonia | 1.02 | 1.21 | 0.89 | 0.99 | 0.60 |
Rates per 1,000 Live Births | |||||
Deaths under one year of age | 50 | 53 | 40 | 48 | 50 |
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under two years of age | 4.6 | 6.3 | 3.0 | 8.2 | 9.64 |
MATERNAL MORTALITY: | |||||
Puerperal Sepsis | 0.77 | Not available. | 0.87 | ||
Others | 2.16 | 0 87 | |||
Total | 2.93 | 1.75 | |||
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e. Live and Still | |||||
MATERNAL MORTALITY: | |||||
Puerperal Sepsis | 0.71 | Not available. | 0.85 | ||
Others | 2.08 | 0.85 | |||
Total | 2.82 | 1.70 | |||
NOTIFICATIONS: | |||||
Puerperal Fever | 14.35 | 17.26 | 12.99 | 3.31 | 8.52 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 14.22 |