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

Orpington 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Birth Rates, Death Rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality and case rate for certain Infectious Diseases in the Year 1945.

	England and Wales.	126 County Boroughs and Great Towns	148 Smaller Towns (populations 25,000 to 40,000).	London Administrative County.	Orpington Urban District.
	Rates per 1,000 Civilian population.
Births:
Live	16.1	19.1	19.2	15.7	17.8
Still	0.46	0.58	0.53	0.40	0.54
Deaths :
All Causes	11.4	13.5	12.3	13.8	10.1
Typhoid and Paratyphoid	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	–
Scarlet Fever	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Whooping Cough	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.02
Diptheria	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	–
Influenza	0.08	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.08
Small Pox	_	_	—	.__	—
Measles	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	—
	Rates per 1,000 live Births.
Deaths under 1 year of age	46	54	43	53	28
Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis under 2 years of age.	5.6	7.8	4.5	7.6	3.3
	Rates per 1,000 Civilian population.
NOTIFICATIONS:
Typhoid Fever	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	—
Paratyphoid Fever	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.00	—
Cerebro-spinal Fever	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.04
Scarlet Fever	1.89	2.02	2.03	1.57	1.29
Whooping Cough	1.64	1.65	1.47	1.25	3.12
Diphtheria	0.46	0.52	0.56	0.31	0.28
Erysipelas	0.25	0.28	0.24	0.31	0.34
Small Pox	0.00	0.00	—	0.00	—
Measles	11.67	10.89	11.19	9.03	10.03
Pneumonia	0.87	1.03	0.72	0.78	1.12
	Rates per thousand Total Births (Live and Still).
NOTIFICATIONS:
Puerperal Fever	9.93	12.65	8.81	3.60	36.1
Puerperal Pyrexia	9.93	12.65	8.81	15.87*	36.1

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A dash (—) signifies there were no deaths.
* Including Puerperal Fever.