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 Hendon]
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COMPARISON OF VITAL STATISTICS OF HENDON
WITH THOSE OF ENGLAND AND WALES, ETC., FOR
TIIE YEAR 1938.
Birth-rates, Death-rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal
Death-rates, and Case-rates for certain Infectious Diseases
in the year 1938.
England and Wales, London, 126 Great Towns ard 148
Smaller Towns.
(Provisional Figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns).
TABLE III.
England and Wales | 126 County Poroughs and Great Towns (including London) | 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census) | London adminis-trative Comity | Hendon | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rates per 1,000 Population | |||||
Births:— | |||||
Live | 15J | 15.0 | 15.4 | 13.4 | 12.93 |
Still | 0.60 | 0.65 | 0.60 | 0.48 | 0.45 |
Deaths:— | |||||
All Causes | 11.6 | 11.7 | 11.0 | 11.4 | 9.38 |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
Smallpox | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | — | — |
Measles | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.01 |
Scarlet fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — |
Whooping Cough | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 |
Diphtheria | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.03 |
Influenza | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 0.04 |
Notifications:— Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
Scarlet fever | 2.41 | 2.60 | 2.58 | 2.05 | 1.98 |
Diphtheria | 1.58 | 1.85 | 1.53 | 1.90 | 1.34 |
Enteric fever | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.03 |
Erysipelas | 0.40 | 0.46 | 0.39 | 0.46 | 0.27 |
Pneumonia | 1.10 | 1.28 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.71 |