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BIRTH RATES, CIVILIAN DEATH RATES, ANALYSIS OF
MORTALITY AND MATERNAL MORTALITY, 1949.
Local figures compared with England and Wales and
certain towns.
126 C.B.s 148 Smaller
England and Great Towns London
and Towns (Resident Pop. Admin. Hornchurch.
Wales including 25,000-50,000 County.
London. at 1931 Census).
Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population.
Births—
Live Births 16.7(a) 18.7 18.0 18.5 16.0
Still Births 0.39(a) 0.47 0.40 0.37 0.39
Deaths—
All Causes 11.7(a) 12.5 11.6 12.2 10.6
Typhoid and
Paratyphoid 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 —
Whooping Cough 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.01 —
Diphtheria 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 —
Tuberculosis 0.45 0.52 0.42 0.52 0.34
Influenza 0.15 0.15 0.14 0.11 0.08
Smallpox 0.00 0.00 — — —
Acute poliomyelitis
& Polioencephalitis 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.00
Pneumonia 0.51 0.56 0.49 0.59 0.30
Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
All causes under 1
year of age 32(b) 37 30 29 17.6
Enteritis and
Diarrhoea 3.0 3.8 2.4 1.7 —
Maternal Mortality : Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births.
Abortion with Sepsis 0.11 —
Abortion without
Sepsis 0.05 —
Puerperal infections 0.11 —
Other maternal causes 0.71 0.59
A dash (—) signifies that there were no deaths,
(a) Rates per 1,000 total population.
i(b) Per 1,000 related live births.