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Orpington 1941

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Table: Birth Rates, Civilian Death rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Case rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1941. Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns : —

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Birth Rates, Civilian Death rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Case rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1941. Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns : —

	England and Wales.	126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London.	148 Smaller Towns (Resident populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 census)	London Administrative County.	Orpington Urban District
	Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population.
Births :
Live	14.2	14.7	16,4	8.9	16.4
Still	0.51	0.58	0.60	0.33	0.44
Deaths : All Causes	12.9	14.9	13.0	16.3	12.3
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	—
Scarlet Fever	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	—
Whooping Cough	0.06	0.07	0.06	0.04	0.02
Diphtheria	0.07	0.08	0.06	0.03	0.8
Influenza	0.19	0.17	0.20	0.15	0.18
Smallpox	—	—	—	—	—
Measles	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.04
	Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
Deaths under 1 year of age	59	71	56	68	51
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age	5.1	7.5	4.6	6,8	5.4
Notifications :	Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population.
Notifications :
Typhoid Fever	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.04
Paratyphoid Fever	0.09	0.12	0.09	0.05	0.21
Cerebro-Spinal Fever	0.25	0.31	0.20	0.30	0.32
Scarlet Fever	1.47	1.49	1.61	1.01	1.42
Whooping Cough	4.39	4.37	4.50	3.50	6.98
Diphtheria	1.25	1.53	1.19	0.93	1.49
Erysipelas	0.30	0.36	0.27	0.50	0.21
Smallpox	—	—	—	—	—
Measles	10.33	8.27	10.47	4.77	26.47
Pneumonia	1.25	1.53	1.04	1.07	0.32
Maternal Mortality : (excluding abortion) Puerperal Infection (No. 147)	Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still).
	0.48	Not Available.			—
Others	1.75
Total	2.23
Notifications :
Puerperal Fever	11.91	15.64	9.43	2.29	15.81
Puerperal Pyrexia	11.91	15.64	9.43	19.3§	15.81

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Orpington 1941

Table: Birth Rates, Civilian Death rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Case rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1941. Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns : —

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