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 Coulsdon]
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OMPARATIVE CRUDE BIRTH-RATES, DEATH-RATES, ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, MATERNAL DEATH-RATES, AND CASE-RATES
FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE YEAR 1947.
England and Wales. | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London. | 148 Smaller Towns [Resident Population 25,000-50,000 at 1931 Census). | London Administrative County. | Coulsdon and Purley Urban District. | |
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Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population : | |||||
Live Births | 20.6* | 23.3 | 22.2 | 22 7 | 17.0 |
Still Births | 0.50* | 0.62 | 0.54 | 0.49 | 0.49 |
Deaths | |||||
All causes | 12.0* | 13.0 | 11.9 | 12.8 | 10.8 |
Typhoid and paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - |
Scarlet fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
Whooping cough | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 | — |
Diphtheria | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — |
Influenza | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.05 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | - |
Measles | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | — |
Notifications : | |||||
Typhoid fever | 0.01 | 0 01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0 01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
Cerebro-spinal fever | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0 02 |
Scarlet fever | 1.37 | 1.54 | 1.37 | 1.31 | 1.25 |
Whooping cough | 2.22 | 241 | 2.02 | 2.80 | 1.84 |
Diphtheria | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.14 | — |
Erysipelas | 0.19 | 0.21 | 0.18 | 0.22 | 0.08 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | — |
Measles | 9.41 | 9.13 | 9.58 | 5.29 | 3.49 |
Pneumonia | 0.79 | 0.89 | 0.68 | 0.64 | 0.32 |
Rates for 1,000 Live Births : | |||||
Deaths under 1 year of age | 411 | 47 | 36 | 37 | 23 |
Deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis under 2 years of age | 5.8 | 8.0 | 3.7 | 4.8 | — |
Rates for 1,000 Live and Still Births : | |||||
Notifications : Puerperal fever | 7.16 | 8.99 | 6.27 | 1.21 | 0.91 |
Puerperal pyrexia | 6-941 | ||||
Maternal Mortality : | |||||
Rates per million women aged 15-44. | |||||
Abortion with sepsis | 0.10 | 9 | — | ||
Abortion without sepsis | 0.06 | 5 | |||
Puerperal infections | 0.16 | — | — | ||
Other maternal causes | 0.85 | 1.83 |