London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Croydon 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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TABLE II.
| Year | Puerperal Sepsis. | Other maternal accidents & diseases of pregnancy and parturition. | Cancer | Pneumonia (all forms). | Influenza. | Bronchitis and other respiratory diseases (excluding pneumonia and tuberculosis). | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Death-rate per 1000 birth*. | Deaths. | Death-rate per 1000 births | Deaths. | Death-rate | Deaths. | Death-rate | Deaths.. | Death-rate | Deaths. | Death-rate | |
| 1913 | 4 | 1.02 | 12 | 3.08 | 206 | 1.15 | 146 | .82 | 26 | .14 | 169 | .95 |
| 1914 | 3 | .74 | 7 | 1.74 | 181 | 1.06 | 161 | .88 | 15 | .08 | 173 | .95 |
| 1915 | 5 | 1.34 | 5 | 1.34 | 198 | 1.11 | 180 | 1.01 | 45 | .25 | 254 | 1.43 |
| 1916 | 8 | 2.20 | 1 | 27 | 226 | 1.28 | 157 | .89 | 47 | .26 | 197 | 1.12 |
| 1917 | 1 | .34 | 8 | 2 .80 | 233 | 1.24 | 137 | 73 | 20 | .10 | 203 | 1.08 |
| 1918 | 3 | 1.14 | 8 | 3 .04 | 228 | 1.35 | 204 | 1.21 | 478 | 2.83 | 179 | 1 .06 |
| 1919 | 3 | 1.01 | 4 | 1.34 | 235 | 1.27 | 136 | .73 | 139 | .75 | 241 | 1.30 |
| 1920 | 6 | 1.37 | 12 | 2.75 | 218 | 1.13 | 160 | .83 | 43 | .22 | 203 | 1. 05 |
| 1921 | 4 | 1.10 | 10 | 2.75 | 218 | 1.13 | 138 | .72 | 39 | .20 | 177 | .92 |
| 1922 | 6 | 1.71 | 10 | 2.85 | 252 | 1.31 | 183 | .95 | 101 | .52 | 234 | 1.21 |
| 1923 | 4 | 1.01 | 8 | 1.78 | 249 | 1.33 | 144 | .74 | 20 | .13 | 175 | .90 |
| 1924 | 2 | 0.58 | 8 | 2.81 | 293 | 1.49 | 182 | .93 | 89 | .45 | 175 | .89 |