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Hornchurch 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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CASE RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 1953.
Local figures compared with England and Wales and
certain towns.
England
and
Wales
160 C.B.s
and Great
Towns
(including
London.)
100 Smaller
Towns
(Kesident Pop
25,000/50,00(
at 1951 Census
London
Admin.
County.
)■
Hornchurch
.
Rates per 1,000 Home Population.
Typhoid fever
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
—
Paratyphoid fever
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.01
—
Meningococcal
infection
0.03
0.04
0.03
0.03
0.03
Scarlet Fever
1.39
1.50
1.44
1.02
1.94
Whooping Cough
3.58
3.72
3.38
3.30
4.70
Diphtheria
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.00
—
Erysipelas
0.14
0.14
0.13
0.12
0.15
Smallpox
0.00
0.00
0.00
—
—
Measles
12.36
11.27
12.32
8.09
11.76
Pneumonia
0.84
0.92
0.76
0.73
0.25
Acute poliomyelitis (ii
eluding polioencephalitis)
Paralytic
-
0.07
O.Ofi
0.06
0.07
0.07
Non-paralvtic
0.04
0.03
0.04
0.03
0.00
Food poisoning
0.24
0.25
0.24
0.38
0.06
Rates per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
Puerperal Pyrexia
18.23
24.33
12.46
28.61
3.09