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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but for London and the towns to civilians only.
Rate per 1,000 total Population. | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Rate per 1,000 Live Births. | |||||||||||
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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 | 14.8 | 0.61 | 12.1 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.52 | 0.14 | 5.9 | 59 |
122 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 14.9 | 0.67 | 12.3 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.45 | 0.14 | 8.2 | 63 |
143 smaller towns (1931) resident populations 25,000-50,000 | 15.0 | 0.64 | 11.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.39 | 0.15 | 3.4 | 55 |
London | 13.6 | 0.53 | 12.5 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.52 | 0.14 | 14.4 | 66 |
Dagenham (estimated population 102,000) | 18.47 | 0.68 | 6.43 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.25 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.24 | 0.31 | 0.09 | 7.96 | 56.26 |