[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington] page 7

Orpington 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Birtli-iates, 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 and 148 Smaller Towns.

	England and Wales	126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London	148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at L931 Census)	London Administrative County	Orpington Urban District
		Rates per 1,000 Population
Births:—
Live	15.1	15.0	15.4	13.4	19.3
Still	0.60	0.65	0.60	0.48	0.32
Deaths:—
All causes	11.6	11.7	11.0	11.4	8.3
Typhoid and Paratyphoid fevers	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Small no*	0.00	-	0.00	-	0.00
Measles	0.04	0.05	0.03	0.06	o'.oo
Scarlet Fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00
Whooping Cough	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.00
Diphtheria	0.07	0.07	0.06	0.05	0.04
Influenza	0.11	0.10	0.11	0.06	0.10
Notifications:—
Smallpox	0.00	0.00	0.00	—	—
Scarlet Fever	2.41	2.60	2.58	2.05	1.66
Diphtheria	1.58	1.85	1.53	1.90	0 47
Enteric Fever	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.05	0 15
Erysipelas	0.40	0.46	0.39	0.46	0.57
Pneumonia	1.10	1.28	0.98	0.98	0.66
		Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Deaths under 1 year of age	53	57	51	57	28
Deaths from Diarrhœa and Enteritis under 2 years of age	5.5	7.8	3.6	13.1	6.68
Maternal Mortality:—
Puerperal Sepsis	0.89		Not available		—
Others ...	2.19				3.34
Total	3 08				3.34
	Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e. Live and Still)
Maternal Mortality:—
Puerperal Sepsis	0.86		Not available		-
Others	2.11				3.25
Total	2 97				3.25
Notifications:—
Puerperal Fever	14.42	18.08	12.51	3.53	19.50
Puerperal pyrexia	14.42	18.08	12.51	15.46	19.50