[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington] page 6

Orpington 1943

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Birth Rates, Civilian Death Rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and Case Rates for certain infectious diseases in the Year 1943.

	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	16.5	18.6	19.4	15.8	21.0
Still	0.51	0.63	0.61	0.45	0.41
Deaths:
All Causes	12.1	14.2	12.7	15.0	11.2
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
Scarlet Fever	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Whooping Cough	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	—
Diphtheria	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.02	0.06
Influenza	0.37	0.36	0.37	0.27	0.30
Smallpox	—	—	—	—	—
Measles	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	—
	Rates per 1,000 Live Births.
Deaths under 1 year of age	49	58	46	58	29.0
Deaths from Diarrhœa and Enteritis under 2 years of age	5.3	7.9	4.4	10.4	2.9
Notifications:	Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population.
Notifications:
Typhoid Fever	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.04
Paratyphoid Fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	—
Cerebro-Spinal Fever	0.08	0.10	0.06	0.09	0.02
Scarlet Fever	3.01	3.29	3.54	3.80	4.01
Whooping Cough	2.54	2.82	2.25	2.68	0.96
Diphtheria	0.88	1.12	0.77	0.74	0.49
Erysipelas	0.31	0.35	0.27	0.42	0.12
Smallpox	—	—	—	—	—
Measles	9.88	9.23	9.77	9.17	6.22
Pneumonia	1.34	1.62	1.16	1.27	0.63
	Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still).
Notifications:
Puerperal Fever	11.68	15.11	9.26	3.05	63.33
Puerperal Pyrexia	11.68	15.11	9.26	15.23§	63.33
§ Including puerperal fever.