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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 1945
[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 1945
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 | 16.1 | 0.46 | 11.4 | 0.00 | - | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 5.6 | 46 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London | 19.1 | 0.58 | 13.5 | 0.00 | - | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 7.8 | 54 |
| 148 smaller towns (1931) resident populations 25,000-50,000 | 19.2 | 0.53 | 12.3 | 0.00 | - | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 4.5 | 43 |
| London | 15.7 | 0.40 | 13.8 | 0.00 | - | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.07 | 7.6 | 53 |
| Dagenham | 19.54 | 0.52 | 6.97 | 0.00 | - | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 5.96 | 42.23 |