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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1957.
England and Wales. Borough of Hendon.
Births
Rates per 1 000 Home Population.
Live births 16.10 11.93
Still births 0.37 0.16
22.4(a) 12.94(a)
Deaths
All causes 11.50 10.58
Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever 0.00 -
Whooping Cough 0.00 -
Diphtheria 0.00 -
Tuberculosis 0.10 0.09
Smallpox - -
Acute Poliomyelitis & Polioencephalitis 0.00 0.02
Pneumonia 0.52 0.41
Influenza 0.15 0.09
Rates per 1,000 Live Births
All causes under 1 year of age 23.00 21.90
NOTIFICATIONS (CORRECTED)
Rates per 1.000 Home Population
Typhoid Fever 0.00 -
Paratyphoid Fever 0.00 0.03
Meningococcal Infection 0.02 0.00
Scarlet Fever 0.65 1.03
Whooping Cough 1.89 1.35
Diphtheria 0.00 0.00
Erysipelas 0.07 0.07
Smallpox - -
Measles 14. 10 14. 11
Pneumonia 0.72 0.79
Acute Poliomyelitis
Paralytic 0.07 0.15
Non-Paralytic 0.03 0.05
Food Poisoning 0.20 0.17
Puerperal Pyrexia 15.99(a) 59.7(a)
26.2* (a)
(a) Per 1,000 Total (Live & Still) Births.
*This is the rate when the figure relating to Hendon residents only is taken.
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