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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
Hendon 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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TABLE IV.
Birth Rate, Death Rate, and Analysis of Mortality during the Year 1923.
| Birth Rate per 1,000 total population. | Annual Death Rate per 1,000 Population. | Rate per 1,000 births. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All causes | Enteric Fever. | Smallpox. | Measles, | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Diphtheria. | Influenza. | Violence. | ||||
| Diarrhoea & Enteritis (under 2 years). | Total deaths under 1 year. | |||||||||||
| *England and Wales | 19.7 | 11.6 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0 07 | 0.22 | 0 44 | 7 7 | 69 |
| *105 County Boroughs and Great Towns (including | ||||||||||||
| London) (Igai adjusted populations over 50,000) | 20.4 | 11.6 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.22 | 0.40 | 9.9 | 72 |
| *157 Smaller Towns (1921 adjusted populations 20,000-50,000) | 19.8 | 10.6 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.21 | 0.38 | 6.4 | 69 |
| *London | 20.2 | 11.2 | 0.01 | 0 00 | 0.08 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 0.13 | 0.17 | 0.45 | 10.2 | 60 |
| †Hendon | 16 31 | 7.92 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.12 | 0.08 | 0.15 | 0.40 | 0 03 | 46 |
* Provisional figures. The rates for England and Wales have been calculated on a population estimated to the
middle of 1923, while those for the towns have been calculated on populations estimated to the middle of 1922.
The mortality rates refer to the whole population as regards England and Wales, but only to civilians as regards
London and the groups of towns.
† For the purposes of this Table the population of Hendon has been taken as 56,690 (which is the Registrar General's
estimate for the middle of 1923).
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