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 Dagenham]
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| Rate per 1,000 total Population. | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Rate per 1,000 Live Births. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births. | Still Births. | All Causes. | Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Violence. | Influenza. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years). | Total Deaths (under one year). | |
| England and Wales | 14.7 | 0.62 | 11.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.52 | 0.18 | 5.7 | 57 |
| 121 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 14.8 | 0.68 | 11.8 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.45 | 0.16 | 7.9 | 62 |
| 140 smaller towns (1931) resident populations 25,000-50,000 | 14.8 | 0.64 | 11.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.41 | 0.17 | 3.8 | 55 |
| London | i 13.3 | 0.52 | 11.4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.51 | 0.11 | 11.2 | 58 |
| Dagenham (estimated population 100,300) | 18.59 | 0.55 | 5.63 | 0.00 | o.oo | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.07 | o.21 | 0.32 | 0.03 | 5.36 | 55.23 |