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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
Dagenham 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]
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Table showing Birth-rate, Death-rate and Analysis of Mortality during the year 1943.
Provisional Figures.—The mortality rates for England and Wales refer to the whole population, 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. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births. | Still Births. | All Causes. | Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Influenza. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years) | Total Deaths (under one year). | |
| England and Wales | 16.5 | 0.51 | 12.1 | 0.00 | — | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.37 | 5.3 | 49 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 18.6 | 0.63 | 14.2 | 0.00 | — | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.36 | 7.9 | 58 |
| 148 smaller towns (1931) resident populations 25,000-50,000 | 19.4 | 0.61 | 12.7 | 0.00 | — | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.37 | 4.4 | 46 |
| London | 15.8 | 0.45 | 15.0 | 0.00 | — | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.27 | 10.4 | 58 |
| Dagenham | 19.83 | 26.38 | 7.98 | 0.00 | — | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.13 | 3.25 | 46.07 |